Reinventing the Millennium

January 24, 2001 at 0:00.

Fang Zhuo spent the year for the second time.

He couldn't remember what it was like last time, but it was nothing more than depression and dullness.

He was very happy that this time he was spending time with his sister watching the Spring Festival Gala across the year.

In the early morning, Fang Zhuo made a wish to the colorful sky, hoping that he could watch the Spring Festival Gala at home with his healthy sister next year and count the seconds to celebrate the New Year.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the first day of the Lunar Year of the Snake, Fang Zhuo and his mother Zhao Shumei brought dumplings to the hospital, and then he handed his cell phone to his sister.

"I had a lot of text messages that I didn't reply to last night. You can check the replies for me. I basically marked them with titles. I just use the auspicious words they sent and send them to others." Fang Zhuo found something for Zhao Suqi to do.

Zhao Suqi had used his mother's Nokia before and knew how to operate it, so he responded obediently after hearing the words.

Fang Zhuo sat next to him, listening to the quarrels between his mother and aunt, while sketching out the problems of the past few days and follow-up arrangements in his notebook.

Compared with the original intention of establishing Yike to make OEM registration machines, the MP3 music player with less technical difficulty is obviously a better choice.

However, the three players I have, F10, PMP300, and Jukebox, also support the MP3 audio format. Why are they not as popular as Ipod?

Is it just because of being ugly?

Can their advantages be combined?

PMP300’s small size, Jukebox’s large storage, F10’s... uh...

As the first MP3 music player to come out, the F10's only advantage so far is that it is groundbreaking.

Fang Zhuo put pioneering work at the end for the time being, thinking about the key points of combining small size and large storage.

He caressed the two machines aimlessly. After thinking to no avail, he took out their manuals and read the official introduction.

Soon, keywords appeared. The manual of PMP300 only gave a general introduction, while the manual of Jukebox focused on describing the advantages of the product. It is an unprecedented player that uses a 2.5-inch hard disk.

This hard drive can store 6.4G, which means it can store at least thousands of songs in MP3 format, which is far more than the Walkman.

But because of this, its size is not convenient to carry, and it is not small and light enough.

"It seems that the problem lies in this hard drive." Fang Zhuo is not sure whether this key point is critical enough, but if he wants to turn the Jukebox in his hand into a lightweight machine, the internal components must be reduced.

Fang Zhuo plans to contact the hard drive manufacturer and ask if there is a smaller size storage medium.

If we know about future products and extrapolate back, smaller hard drives will inevitably appear, we just don’t know when.

"Brother, brother, who is this Team Leader Zheng? What he sent was not a blessing message, but an inquiry about your registration network situation." Zhao Suqi suddenly asked.

"Team Leader Zheng? Zheng Danrui, Team Leader Zheng?" Fang Zhuo came back to his senses.

"right."

Fang Zhuo took the phone. He had a lot of messages last night and was not in the mood to check. He didn't notice that Zheng Danrui also sent him a message, asking about the development of the website.

He thought seriously for a while and replied with a concise work report text message.

"Happy New Year to Team Leader Zheng. The registration network has been steadily working in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. Since Zhejiang Province has a large number of tertiary hospitals in other cities besides the provincial capital, the next step will be to gradually improve the overall rollout in Zhejiang Province. Wait until the next two The work in the province is going well, and we will launch business in Shanghai within the year, and the goal is the entire East China region by the end of the year. Once again, I wish Team Leader Zheng a happy family reunion and a happy New Year."

Fang Zhuo read it several times and felt that there was nothing wrong with it. With a status like Team Leader Zheng, he would rather see the word "stable", but that was not the case with the venture capital side. They couldn't wait to spread their business across the country in a month. TOLL.

He sent the text message and waited for a while without receiving a reply, then continued thinking about the player.

Half an hour later, Zheng Danrui's reply came.

"Happy New Year, Mr. Fang. I will take up my duties after the new year. If you have any ideas on the construction of the Internet industry, please actively communicate with me."

Fang Zhuo stared at the information revealed in the middle four words, feeling that there might be some change. Zheng Danrui's promotion and application team seemed to have been established in advance? Does that mean that higher-level organizational reforms have also been carried out?

If this is the case, the reason will definitely not be the establishment of the registration network, but the premature collapse of Top Software Park.

After all, many local governments are involved.

Fang Zhuo made such a guess in his mind, thought for a while, and directly sent a text message to ask: "The registration network is willing to operate healthily under the guidance of the government. It involves the basic fields of medical care and people's livelihood. I think that relying solely on the market will naturally respond. Question, especially for a city at the forefront of development like Shanghai, can Team Leader Zheng introduce the relevant leaders of Shanghai to guide the operation of the website?"

To put it simply, Fang Zhuo asked Zheng Danrui, I want to enter Shanghai City, do you know anyone?

There was no reply to the text message for a long time.

Fang Zhuo felt a little regretful. He didn't know what the other party was thinking. He was speaking from the bottom of his heart and was absolutely willing to let the website run in an orderly manner under the eyes of the administration.

"Brother, is this person very important? You look so serious." Zhao Suqi observed for a while.

"He is a very important leader. If he can help, it may save a lot of trouble." Fang Zhuo said thoughtfully, "His job content is to promote applications. This kind of busyness should sound more appropriate, right?"

Zhao Suqi thought for a while: "Promotion is very appropriate."

"Hahaha, I hope the leader thinks so too." Fang Zhuo shook his head and handed the phone to his sister again. Then, he put the computer on his knees and prepared to check which hard drive manufacturers are available today.

On the first day of the new year, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers was still heard from time to time in the ward. Zhao Shumei and Xu Ru, who were chatting by the window, felt very relieved to see the busy figures of the brothers and sisters.

It would be better if this scene was not in the hospital.

For about half an hour, Fang Zhuo copied the emails of the manufacturers he found that were still familiar to him on his notebook. He wrote an inquiry message about hard drive products in English, intending to send it to the major manufacturers one by one.

Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba, Intel... these are basically still famous hard drive manufacturers in later generations.

"Hey, brother, brother, your phone number belongs to Xiao Su." Zhao Suqi handed over the phone.

Fang Zhuo took it and said, "Hey, Xiao Su is very polite, and there is a New Year's call."

When the call ended, he handed the phone to his sister.

After a while, my sister's voice sounded in the ward again.

"Brother, it's your Xiaoyu's."

"Brother, your foreign sister."

"elder brother……"

The calls became a bit dense, the voices gradually became strange, and the eyes of the elders gradually became a little different.

Fang Zhuo responded calmly to all New Year greeting calls and responded with his most sincere greetings.

After all this, replies slowly began to arrive in the mailbox. Some manufacturers that specialize in computer hard drives directly stated that they did not have hard drives smaller than 2.5 inches, while others said they were different.

Near noon, important news appeared in a new email from Toshiba. They stated that they have 1.8-inch hard drive technology and asked about the number of interested parties.

"1.8 inches."

Fang Zhuo gestured with his hand. It was slightly larger than a bank card and an improvement over the hard drive used in the PMP300, but he didn't know if it was smaller.

He did not reply to the email and decided to wait for news from other manufacturers, but he was already thinking about the need to find a professional who understands hardware to measure the level of different electronic components.