Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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The reason why Bob Guccione and Donald Trump hit it off at Pebble Beach Golf Club is mainly because the latter also has investments in Atlantic City, which runs a hotel called Trump Plaza Hotel. The project also naturally provides gambling venues for tourists to entertain themselves. ←,

The Trump Plaza Hotel was opened almost at the same time as the attic hotel of Bob Gucho, but because it was stuck in the gambling license, the former opened early, while Bob Gucho could only ******** Dry and consume.

However, Donald Trump is not satisfied with the profitability of Trump Plaza Hotel. He is taking the remaining shares from his partners and intends to go it alone. One of the measures taken to promote is to expand the scale, and the distance is not far. Bob Guccione's unfinished project entered his eyes.

This picker fits Bob Guccione's heart, so his gratitude to Tang Huan is a bit sincere, at least he recognizes that the sale of Madonna's photos is worth the money.

"Only if everyone has something to gain, the event I organized will be meaningful." Tang Huan smiled and congratulated, then separated, and went on doing what should be done.

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After putting on the equipment sent by Masako Hetian in the hotel room, Tang Huan went to the stadium to socialize with club members there. To put it bluntly, he used his aura as the richest man in the United States to increase the gold content of this event.

It just so happened that Earl Woods, whom Tang Huan specially asked his subordinates to invite, was also there, so he met by the way.

The other party is now an agent of a defense industry contractor. Previously, he was a US Army Special Forces officer who participated in the Vietnam War. He learned golf while stationed in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York in 1972, and became obsessed with the sport. A fairly good amateur player.

Of course, regardless of status or level, Earl Woods is not qualified to participate in such high-end club activities. He borrowed the light of his son, that is, the famous little genius, Tiger Woods, who is ten years old this year.

Tiger Woods grew up in the Los Angeles area. He is a veritable golf genius. Child knows how to play golf when he is two years old; when he was three years old he played with comedian Bob Hope on the TV show "TheMikeDouglasSho"; when he was five years old he began to appear in famous golf In the magazine; in JuniorWorldChampionships held in 1984, he won the 9-10 year old junior group world championship. At that time, his actual age was less than 9 years old.

In such a well-dressed adult world, Tiger Woods is an extremely talented kid. Absolutely add a lot of luster and color.

To this end, Tang Huan also enthusiastically competed with Tiger Woods, which was a great time.

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After a brief relaxation at the Pebble Beach Golf Course, Tang Huan was greeted by several important meetings. The first choice was the issue of the appreciation of the yen that has been discussed this year.

Fangyuan Computer's supply chain is spread all over the world. The market layout also focuses on the world, and naturally attaches great importance to this possible change, which will have an impact on the financial situation.

I have to say that this is a great performance of Tang Huan's good leadership. In fact, he did not specifically order his subordinates to investigate this issue specifically, it was a completely spontaneous behavior.

After all, Fangyuan Computer Company is a publicly listed company. There are many people staring at it. Tang Huan's Xiao Jiujiu mainly falls in his private realm.

Listening to your subordinates, discussing and evaluating the impact of possible changes in the international currency exchange rate on the company at the meeting, Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows and waved his hand: "Now that I'm here, then I will be bright. Let’s look at your attitude. Plan for the worst in everything. We can always fight for more space for ourselves. First, we prepare for it; second, the public relations team pays attention to collecting relevant information; finally, the minutes of this meeting are listed as the company’s top secret level."

In this way, Tang Huan, who felt that there was no need to waste too much time arguing, made a decisive decision.

This kind of situation also happens to EA, and the situation is more special.

Gein, at this stage. The center of the global video game market has moved from the United States to Japan, and the bulk of EA's business has also been implemented there.

Tang Huan dealt with this in a smooth manner, that is, to maintain the status quo, such as not busy withdrawing the earned yen back to the United States on a large scale. Let's wait and see for a while.

As for the Philosophy and Confucian family, since it is not listed, it basically belongs to Tang Huan's private domain, and it is easier to manipulate.

From the product level, Zheru mainly exports technology, patents, software and other intangible intellectual achievements to companies such as Fangyuan and EA. There are not many physical products that are sensitive to changes in international currency exchange rates.

In addition. The members of Philosopher America, Philosopher Xiangjiang, Philosopher Island, Philosopher Japan, Philosopher Singapore, etc., are very independent of each other, focusing on localized operations, and there is no Fangyuan Computer, Ships like EA have difficulty turning around.

Therefore, Tang Huan directly issued the confidential instruction of "preparing for the worst" to these bright industries, which was regarded as resolving the debates and quarrels caused by the dedication of the subordinates "the emperor is not in a hurry, the **** is in a hurry".

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What Tang Huan really pays attention to is that the recent personal computer field has become more and more intense, and a compatible computer war has almost kicked off.

With the successful release of fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computers, especially the large orders for mobile fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computers issued by the State Administration of Taxation, the market has given a signal that a new round of personal computer upgrades is unstoppable. Whoever falls behind will only end up being eliminated.

Compared with the step-by-step and methodical nature of the Fangyuan computer standard camp, the situation in the IBM-PC standard camp can only be described as eccentricity and mischief.

The many features represented by the 32-bit and graphical user interface operating systems on the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer platform have pointed out the way forward for future personal computer applications, and have also severely blocked the current IBM-PC.

The third-generation and second-generation Fangyuan personal computers can smoothly transition to the next-generation fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computers, while the corresponding IBM-PC and compatible products do not have this rush.

IBM is developing the next generation of personal computers, but apart from a "PS/2" project code, other aspects are kept secret. It is not like Fangyuan Computer Company, which frequently communicates with authorized compatible partners.

But IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers can't complain, who let them be free to ask. When cutting the meat of the blue giant, people have too many reasons to ignore you.

It is precisely because of this cold relationship that IBM-PC compatible manufacturers are beginning to realize that the next-generation personal computer platform "PS/2" that IBM is developing. I'm afraid it's a brand new system, the name is more or less implied, and the purpose is to kick out blood suckers like myself.

As a result, a problem is imminent in the eyes of the IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers. At present, the entire IBM-PC camp is competing wildly for two categories of products: the 8-bit IBM-PC/XT and the 16-bit IBM. -PC/AT. There may be no successors.

This is simply a catastrophe. You know, among the discussions, the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers have been successfully unveiled. In addition to the slightly more expensive, it is almost a perfect product, and the appeal is not ordinary. You can't just sell low-end IBM-PC/XT and IBM-PC/AT on your own, otherwise, it will be discussed logically in two years.

In just a few years, those successful IBM-PC compatible manufacturers. All of them have achieved annual sales of hundreds of millions of dollars. They are used to this delicacy, and they are also tied to this chariot. They really don't want to bother to change their course. After all, I have already occupied a place in the IBM-PC standard camp. If I switch to the opposite Fangyuan computer standard camp, I will belong to a newcomer, and no one can say how far it can go.

Since the original creator of IBM refuses to develop the next generation of models for IBM-PC and help this series continue, let's do it ourselves.

that's all. Six of the most influential and most successful IBM-PC compatible manufacturers have announced an alliance to jointly develop the next generation of IBM-PC/AT compatibles, which is the 32-bit corresponding to the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer. IBM-PC/AT.

This job is not just as simple as replacing an Intel80386 CPU. There are still many supporting functional chips that need to be redesigned.

It is not so easy for IBM-PC compatible manufacturers to sit together. The confusion in the IBM-PC standard camp is not only reflected between compatible manufacturers and IBM, but compatible manufacturers are also fighting against each other.

One of the manifestations is the keyboard used by the IBM-PC. In order to ensure that their keyboards are not replaced, compatible machine manufacturers even specially design their own unique keyboard interface to establish barriers.

Documents placed on the table in the conference room. Luo listed the detailed information of this IBM-PC compatible manufacturer, whose ambition was so ambitious that he simply named it "Personal Computer Standard Group."

"It's a big tone." Tang Huan, who felt that he had been robbed of the best line, couldn't help but snorted coldly, "Even if the big elephant from IBM has no objection, we will not agree."

Shi Chongtang joked: "I think it's more appropriate for their alliance to be called Six Doors. Compaq, NEC, Zenith Data System, Good Profit, Huizhi Technology, Hongzhi Computer, there are exactly six."

Tang Huan was amused. He glanced at the members of the "Personal Computer Standards Group", and it turned out that there were just six members.

"Then let's introduce the so-called ‘PC Standard Group’." Tang Huan waved his hand to the opposite department executive, and then the lights in the conference room dimmed, and everyone looked at the slides.

Undoubtedly, the initiators of these six "PC Standard Groups" are among the most successful batch of IBM-PC compatible manufacturers, and they are naturally the most sinister vampires that IBM hates.

Among these companies, some were established only a few years ago and were born specifically for the free personal computer standard of IBM-PC; some were established companies who saw opportunities to make quick money in the field of personal computers and achieved unexpected success. .

Compaq Computer, established in 1982, belongs to the former. It focused on IBM’s gap in the field of portable computers and launched the mobile IBM-PC compatible machine "paqPortable", which became an instant hit; in 1984, it took advantage of the situation to launch a real desktop Personal computer "paqDeskpro".

These products have brought hundreds of millions of dollars in sales to Compaq Computer, making it one of the few successful startups.

If at the beginning Compaq Computer still had the idea of ​​switching to the Fangyuan computer camp, now that it has tasted the sweetness, it has been reluctant to buy the IBM-PC compatible car, and it is advocating to kick IBM. Self-developed the main force of the 386 model of IBM-PC.

NEC's own PC-9800 series, after being wiped out by Fangyuan PC compatible PC manufacturers such as Sharp, Sony, Panasonic, etc., unconvinced it turned its attention to the IBM-PC.

Zenith Data System is a subsidiary company established in 1979 and belongs to Zenith Electronics. It is a veteran electronic company in the United States, with a history that can be traced back to 1918. Seeing the unlimited business opportunities in the personal computer industry, it plunged in.

HoliSuccess is also an established company. It started as a typewriter in Turin, Italy in 1908, and then continued to expand. In the 1930s, its business expanded to more than 20 countries; it entered the computer business in the 1940s~www.wuxiaspot.com ~ And in 1982 stared at the IBM-PC compatible computer business.

Huizhi Technology was established in 1981. The initial product was a character terminal with high quality and low price. It was quite successful. Based on this successful listing and financing, it naturally focused on the IBM-PC compatible machine with free technology.

Hongzhi Computer is a bit special. Two of its founders, Huang Chaohong and Yuan Zhikun, are immigrants from Hong Kong. After the company was founded in 1980 in Irvine, California, the initial business was the production of expansion cards, and then it was converted to personal computers.

Because Hongzhi Computer is also building a factory in Hsinchu Science Park, Baodao, to take advantage of the preferential conditions there, Tang Huan has an impression in his mind, but he didn't expect the other party to join in the fun.

"Personal Computer Standard Group", no, "Six Doors" in addition to launching the next-generation personal computer R&D plan **** for tat, also took advantage of the opportunity to emphasize that the current IBM-PC compatible machine has a clear future upgrade direction, and then it will fight a price war in the summer vacation. , Set off a new round of sales offensive.

"Can't let the arrogance go on." Tang Huan pointed to the histogram of sales data on the slide. "Since IBM has more than enough energy but not enough energy, then we will educate these IBM-PC compatible manufacturers for the big elephant." (To be completed. Continued.)