Li Zetian glanced at the project plan and couldn't help but be stunned.
Zhang Yan smiled complacently and said, "Well, I'm surprised, right? Hehe, speaking of which, my inspiration still came from the Walkman. The Walkman is a portable audio player, and I thought, why can't a personal computer be made into a portable computer? "
Hearing this, Li Zetian smiled and said, "I'm not too surprised!"
"Aren't you surprised? Mr. Li, aren't you surprised by such an idea? This is what I came up with after thinking for a long time. I think there will be a big market for portable personal computers in the future!"
"The idea is correct, but at present, the hardware conditions do not meet the requirements!"
After speaking, Li Zetian took out a design drawing from the drawer, "If the technology meets the requirements, I will have taken out this design drawing long ago!"
Zhang Yan looked at the design drawings, his face stunned and shocked.
He just put forward an idea, and Li Zetian has already completed the drawing design!
This is a clamshell personal computer with a husk design with a keyboard and display on the front and a host computer on the back. Of course, this design is already the best Li Zetian can think of. The laptop host after the 21st century is placed directly under the keyboard, but the current hardware is too large, and the host can only be connected to the back.
Zhang Yan sighed slightly and said, "I thought I was the only one who thought of the design of a portable personal computer. It turns out that you have already thought about it, Mr.li, and even designed the drawings!"
Li Zetian patted Zhang Yan on the shoulder and said, "You're pretty good if you can think of going with me!"
When Zhang Yan heard this, he immediately became happy again. He could have the same idea as the super genius Mr. Li. What does that mean? It shows that I am also a genius, hahaha...
"Mr. Li, is the small print MacBook on the design drawing the name of this portable personal computer?"
"Yes!" Li Zetian said, "The Mac that Jobs is developing is a desktop computer, and the MacBook is a notebook computer, which is what you call a portable personal computer!"
"Laptop? Well, that's a pretty metaphor!"
Zhang Yan paused and asked, "When will we develop the MacBook?"
"A few more years!"
Li Zetian thought to himself that if the operating system and software were put into the memory ROM of the notebook computer, its capacity would obviously not be enough. The current ROM is only a few dozen KB, and it is very expensive. Therefore, more storage medium is required. It is a pity that the hard disk is super large, so this is not considered. Early laptops used floppy drives, and they were 3.5-inch floppy drives. However, it was not until 1976 that a 5.25-inch floppy drive was developed, which is larger than the thick "Xinhua Dictionary". Such a notebook computer is not smaller than a desktop computer. Can it still be a notebook computer
In 1980, Sony was the first to introduce smaller, larger-capacity 3.5-inch floppy drives and floppy disks. Since then, 3.5-inch floppy disks and drives have become the norm in PCs. This absolute monopoly lasted for more than ten years. It was not until the appearance of CD-ROM and USB storage devices that the sales of floppy disks began to gradually decline.
As a top technician, Zhang Yan naturally understood what Li Zetian was worried about, so he said, "Mr. Li, we can work on developing a smaller software driver! On the one hand, it can create benefits for Apple, on the other hand, there are Contribute to the development of the MacBook!!!"
Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, "Well, that's a good idea! Well, let's start building Apple's disk department now!!!"
Zhang Yan laughed and said, "Mr. Li, let Wozniak be in charge of the Apple-lll project, and I will be in charge of developing the floppy drive and MacBook."
Li Zetian said: "You can be in charge of the MacBook, I have already been selected for the floppy drive!"
"There has been a choice? Who is this person?" Zhang Yan asked curiously.
"Hey, Alan Shugart of IBM, inventor of the floppy disk and hard drive!!!"
"Uh, Mr. Li, are you sure you can recruit such a talent to Apple?"
"Alan Shugart is not a person who is willing to be lonely. Although he worked for IBM, he founded Shugart Associates with his friends in 1973. This company is a specialized floppy disk manufacturing company, but in 1974 it was The board of directors of the company is fired. I believe that as long as the interest is large enough, it will definitely attract him!"
Li Zetian even knew that Alan Shugart chose to leave IBM and founded the famous Seagate Technology Company!
"Mr.li, I didn't expect you to investigate him so clearly!"
Li Zetian smiled slightly and said: "Success is not that simple! Didn't someone say that one minute on stage, ten years of work off stage. If you want to be successful, you must work hard! Well, I will go out in person later, Dig the "Father of Disks" into us at Apple!!!"
"Yeah!" Zhang Yan couldn't help nodding excitedly when he heard the words. Apple is getting more and more talented, which is very proud.
…
Li Zetian has already sorted out a lot of information about Alan Shugart, so he is very confident about this digging!
That night, Li Zetian personally called Alan Shugart.
"Are you Alan Shugart?"
"Yes, may I ask who you are...?"
"I'm Apple founder Chronos Li!"
Alan Shugart was stunned when he heard the words, but he didn't speak for a while. He secretly said, how could the founder of Apple call me
"Hello, Mr. Li, what are you doing to me?"
"Shugat, have you ever thought about jumping to Apple?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I didn't think about it!"
"Hehe, don't be too busy to refuse! Please listen to my conditions! Apple is planning to establish a subsidiary company specializing in the development of disk drives - Seagate Technology, if you can jump from IBM, I can give Your annual salary of $50,000…”
Hearing this, Alan Shugart was very nervous. The annual salary of $50,000 is a sky-high salary, more than twice as high as what he was at IBM!
Before Alan Shugart could return to his senses, Li Zetian continued, "Besides, there is also a 5% stake in Seagate Technology. If you can bring a group of highly skilled engineers from IBM, I will also I can give you 1%-2% more shares, and the more people you bring, the more shares! I can promise these people that their salary will be at least 20% higher than in IBM!”
Alan Shugart did not speak, and was in a hesitation at the moment.
"Mr. Li, I have to think carefully about this matter."
"No problem, I'll wait for you!"
After saying this, the two ended the call.
As a result, Alan Shugart thought about it all night and lost sleep.
Li Zetian did not fully count on Alan Shugart. He personally called the outstanding disk development engineers of Sony, DEC and other companies, and also promised high salaries and shares, but the number was lower than that of Alan Shugart. a lot of.
There is no wall in the world that does not leak. Some engineers rejected Li Zetian's request and then talked about the digging of the wall. Soon, the industry knew that Apple was going to enter the disk field.
Alan Shugart didn't hesitate for a long time. He called Li Zetian on the third day, but he made a request to increase his shares!
"Mr.li, if you give me 10% of Seagate Technology's shares, I am willing to join the company, and I can bring at least 10 IBM disk development engineers here!"
"10 disk development engineers didn't make up for it, right?"
"I swear in the name of God, absolutely not. They are all excellent engineers! If you don't believe me, you can test their abilities yourself!"
"Yes, I will!"
Li Zetian said, "I agree to your request!!!"
10% of the shares will be diluted in the future. If Alan Shugart's shares are too small, he will definitely not work wholeheartedly. It is necessary for the horse to run well and not to eat grass. How can it be so good? matter.
A week later, IBM's collective job-hopping incident broke out.
Alan Shugart joined Apple's Seagate Technology with 10 disk development engineers. At the same time, other companies have also experienced job-hopping incidents.
IBM suddenly exploded.
"Apple is so deceiving!"
"Chairman, what do you say!!"
PS: I'm asking for tickets, I'm behind again~~~ Code in the afternoon and code in the evening, it's so hard, I should be able to write two or three more chapters, ask for tickets!