Steve Jobs famously said: "One great person can top 50 mediocre employees."
Li Zetian recognized this sentence very much.
He did the math, and he offered Wozniak $20 an hour, an average engineer $10 an hour, $20 for two, $30 for three…
A technical problem that ordinary engineers can't solve in a few days or even a dozen days, but Wozniak may solve it in a few minutes.
This is the value of top engineers! ! !
The next night, Wozniak came to Apple's headquarters - the garage.
Wozniak is not surprised, and the same is true of his garage, which is completely used as a laboratory.
"Just the two of us?!" he asked in surprise.
"What? You don't have confidence in yourself?" Li Zetian smiled and asked rhetorically.
"It's nothing, just two people!" Wozniak said indifferently, "What kind of personal computer do you want to design?"
Li Zetian opened a locked drawer with the key, and then took out a design drawing, "This is my design drawing, there are some text descriptions next to it, you can take a look first, and then we will discuss this design plan. No, where should I modify it?" Li Zetian handed the design to Wozniak.
"OK, all right!"
Li Zetian sat on the side and waited quietly, looking at the design drawings, it should take some time.
When Wozniak looked at the design, Li Zetian looked at him secretly, and saw a look of shock on Wozniak's face!
Li Zetian secretly said: "I try not to include the advanced design concepts in the future, but I still shocked the great people of this era, hehe..."
"What an exquisite design, especially the design of this PC expansion bus is absolutely epoch-making! With a total of 100 plugs, only 86 plugs are used, and 14 are reserved for expansion, and the computer produced can pass through the expansion bus. Compatible with a variety of 8-bit microprocessors, and can even quickly adapt to 16-bit technology!!!”
Wozniak's eyes lit up and he was full of praise! ! !
What is a bus? In short, the bus is the public communication trunk through which various data and commands can be transmitted between the various components of the computer!
Each component of the computer is actually a module, and the connection between the modules is through the bus. If the bus is standardized, then the modules are universal - compatible! ! !
The purpose of Li Zetian's design of the PC expansion bus is to establish a bus standard, which belongs to the bus standard of Apple. In the future, when the Apple-ll type PC is developed, it will be compatible with many products on the market and promote the sales of Apple-ll! ! !
At that time, the expansion slot of Apple-ll can be the same big killer!
"Wozniak, what do you think of my designs?"
“Excellent, perfect!”
"If that's the case, let's start implementing it!!!"
"Okay!!!" Wozniak responded excitedly, he couldn't wait at this moment!
That night, Wozniak stayed up all night, but in the morning, he was full of energy. Seeing that it was time to go to work at HP, I reluctantly left the garage!
Li Zetian stayed up all night with him.
"Wozniak, are you still coming tonight?" Li Zetian shouted loudly towards his back.
"Come!!!"
The owner of the house, Tian Shuai, just went out at this time. He asked with a smile, "Chronos, the lights in the garage are on all night. Could it be that you guys worked all night last night?"
"Yes, Wozniak was very excited when he saw my blueprint! Oh, by the way, that person was Wozniak, an HP engineer, who worked for me in his spare time!"
Tian Shuai couldn't help laughing, "I see, 'after work' is his real working time, right? He has stayed up all night, and he still has energy to work at Hewlett-Packard during the day?"
Li Zetian smiled and asked, "Are you going out to find a job now?"
"Yes, go to Exxon for an interview!" Tian Shuai replied.
"Good luck, I'm going back to make up for sleep!" Li Zetian waved his hand.
"Well, go to sleep!"
Li Zetian actually wants to say, stay, let's create a big situation together! However, Apple can't even afford to rent a decent headquarters, and can only temporarily rent a garage, and its future is uncertain. Others are going to interview with Exxon, one of the top 500 Fortune 500 companies. What can I do to keep him
Li Zetian shook his head inwardly, this matter can only be discussed later.
In the days that followed, everything became very plain and single.
Tian Shuai got his wish and entered the Exxon company, changed jobs, and held a higher position. And Lee spent every day developing the Apple-l personal computer in a tiny garage!
The Altair-8080 computer developed by MITS has only a host computer, no display, no keyboard, and no mouse. It is a computer without a monitoring program, and users can only program the computer with binary machine language. However, once such a computer came out, it shocked the industry, and the orders kept coming. The Global Catalog described it as follows: "This is an absolute, undisputed, incredible overnight success."
Such a rubbish product also deserves this kind of praise, which shows that the users at that time were really not demanding!
Li Zetian couldn't make such a rubbish product, at least he had to have a monitor and a keyboard. Forget the mouse, with the monitor and keyboard, the Apple-l model computer is enough to crush the Altair-8080. The mouse is left to the Apple-ll model computer, which is another killer!
However, Li Zetian is more worried now that with so many things developed, the progress on his side must be slower than that of MITS, and Wozniak is also a part-timer, which makes the development of the project slower.
"Three cobblers top Zhuge Liang!"
A month later, Li Zetian decided to recruit one or two more people. So he advertised the job in a local newspaper. Li Zetian did not deceive others, stating that this is a garage business, and the company has just been established. As a result, it is not good to be too honest. After a week, no one applied for the job.
At 7:30 in the morning, Tian Shuai went out to work and happened to bump into Li Zetian again. The two chatted for a while. When Li Zetian complained that he couldn't recruit people, Tian Shuai smiled and said, "I know a very skilled engineer, and he is also Chinese. , do you want to introduce it to you? However, he charges no less than Wozniak!"
"It doesn't matter, as long as he is skilled, I can give him the same salary as Wozniak!!!"
Tian Shuai added: "Besides, he has a job now, so he can only do part-time jobs!"
"also!!!"
"Alright then, I'll call and ask him to come and talk to you after get off work at night."
"Thank you so much!"
"It's no big deal!"
…
evening.
A Chinese came to Apple's headquarters.
"Hello?! Is that Mr. Li Zetian?" he shouted inside.
"It's me, you are the engineer Tian Shuai said!" Li Zetian looked at him carefully, about thirty years old, very calm.
"Yes, my name is Zhang Yan!"
The two were still talking when a voice suddenly came from outside the garage, "Kevin Zhang, why are you here?"
It was none other than Wozniak who spoke.
"Uh, do you know each other?" Li Zetian was startled and asked.
"We are HP colleagues!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.