The United States tried to depreciate the dollar by signing the "Plaza Accord" to solve the foreign trade deficit, but in fact, for a long time after the "Plaza Accord", Japan's trade surplus with the United States not only did not decrease, but instead increased substantially. Some experts believe that the sharp appreciation of the yen provides a good opportunity for Japanese companies to go global and expand overseas on a large scale.
By mid-November, the dollar had depreciated by more than 20%, and the yen had appreciated substantially, making Japanese entrepreneurs very arrogant, waving checks to "buy, buy, buy"!
Japanese businessmen have appeared in Hawaii, New York, Los Angeles and many other places, and they have bought a lot of land and buildings.
In his previous life, Li Zetian only heard that the Japanese were crazy in the 1980s and 1990s, and even threatened to buy the United States. Now that he can personally experience this era, he can't help but be dumbfounded!
The Japanese are so rich, even Li Zetian is ashamed of himself.
On November 5th, Dongfang Yuqin returned from the holiday and started to work. With her here, Li Zetian is much more relaxed.
After more than a year of construction, the NSFNet network has been preliminarily completed. The main communication line has a data transmission speed of 56kb/s, connecting the six major supercomputer centers in the United States and a large number of colleges and universities to realize information sharing.
At this time, Galaxy Networks launched the Galaxy-Model, which can transmit data up to 2400bit/s, crushing other modems at the moment and becoming a fire in the industry.
Sprint Corporation began to provide network access services.
In addition, the nationwide digital fiber optic network that Sprint is building is also connected to the NSFNet network to form a larger network. Of course, the management rights of the two networks are separate. NSFNet favors academic research, and Sprint's nationwide digital fiber network favors business.
A magnificent picture scroll has begun to unfold slowly!
Li Zetian is not the only genius in this world, there are also people who have seen the development potential of the Internet and are actively involved in it.
In mid-November, when Li Zetian was learning about the development of 32-bit personal computers at Mango Computer, he happened to meet this person.
"Mr. Li, I'm very surprised to meet you here, I'm Steve Case, the founder of AOL!"
AOL! ! !
Li Zetian heard the words, his heart moved, and he could not help looking at the other party, "He is the founder of America Online, so young, only twenty-six or seven years old?"
Before the burst of the Internet bubble, AOL was very strong, but in just over a dozen years, AOL's total capital has reached 164 billion US dollars, revenue of 4.8 billion US dollars in fiscal year 1999, profit of 762 million US dollars, 12,100 employees, becoming the The world's largest online service company is also the world's most famous e-commerce platform, and its instant online paging product ICQ dominates the United States. It can be said that AOL is the most famous Internet company representing the "new economy" of the United States, and its market value was twice that of the computer giant IBM at that time!
AOL seems like a formidable rival.
"Oh, hello, Mr. Steve Case! What's the matter with you coming to Mango Company?" Li Zetian asked.
"That's right, our AOL has developed an online service system, and I hope it can be installed on the Mango computer!"
At this time, the CEO of Mango Computer whispered to Li Zetian: "Mr. Li, this guy comes here almost every day. It seems that if we don't install their online service system, he may not give up!"
Li Zetian nodded to show his understanding, then turned to look at Steve Case, thinking that this guy doesn't know how many computer companies he has run, and is he stalking like this
"Hello, Mr. Case, I would like to know the strength of your company first. Mango Computer is a big brand company after all, and the companies we cooperate with are all very powerful, so as to ensure that consumers like our products!" Li Zetian asked in a light tone.
Steve Case was a little embarrassed when he heard this, but he quickly covered it up.
"Mr. Li, don't worry, although AOL is a start-up company, our company is also very powerful!"
Li Zetian smiled and said, "Well, then you go back first, and I will send someone to your company to take a look and then think about it."
"Mr. Li, why don't you take a look at our company's software first!" Steve Case hurriedly said.
"Don't worry, you can watch it later! I'm very busy now, don't worry, I will send someone to your company!"
"Alright then!" Steve Case sighed inwardly.
As soon as Steve Case left, Li Zetian said to Dongfang Yuqin beside him: "Send someone to investigate AOL, and ask for details!"
"Yes!"
Right now, there is no vitality in the online service market, but AOL can focus on this market, so it is no wonder that it will be successful in the future!
Afterwards, Li Zetian turned to look at the CEO of Mango Computer Company and consulted about the development of 32 personal computers.
On January 1 this year, Intel Corporation released the 32-bit Intel80386 chip, and Mango Computer Corporation started to develop 32-bit personal computers.
As soon as 32-bit personal computers come out, they will inevitably crush 16-bit personal computers and become the mainstream.
"Four-fifths of the development progress has been completed, and it should be available globally in April next year!" said the CEO of Mango Computer. "The operating system will use Microsoft's third-generation operating system, Windows 3.0."
"Take me to the laboratory to have a look."
"Okay, Mr. Li, please come with me."
After a while, Li Zetian and others came to a laboratory and saw the 32-bit personal computer being developed.
In terms of appearance, it is similar to the current mainstream computer, and it looks bloated.
Li Zetian took a closer look and felt that the reason why the desktop computer was bloated was mainly because the hard disk was too big.
Right now, the size of floppy disks has been reduced to 3.5 inches, which is okay, and will continue to be like this from now on until it is replaced by USB sticks. The hard disk is 5.25 inches, which is very large. Li Zetian noticed this problem at this time.
Didn't Seagate develop magnetoresistive technology
Although Li Zetian didn't know much about hard disks, he also knew that magnetoresistive technology was the key to hard disks.
In fact, in the late 1980s, the IBo Resistive magnetoresistive technology greatly improved the sensitivity of the magnetic head, making the storage density of the platter dozens of times higher than the previous 20Mbpsi (bit/square inch). This technology has greatly improved the capacity of the hard disk. Foundation. In 1991, IBM introduced the first 3.5-inch 1GB hard drive using this technology. Later, IBM introduced GMR giant magnetoresistance technology, which further improved the sensitivity of the magnetic head, thereby increasing the storage density. After that, almost all hard disks use GMR giant magnetoresistance technology.