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Zhang Yan smiled proudly: "How's that, I'm surprised, isn't it? Hehe, speaking of which, my inspiration still comes from the Walkman." The Walkman is a portable amplifier, so I thought, "Why can't a personal computer be made into a portable computer?"

When Li Zetian heard this, he smiled and said, "I'm not so surprised!"

"Not surprised? Mr. Li, aren't you surprised by such an idea? This is something that I came up with after thinking about it for many days, and I think there will be a big market for portable personal computers in the future!"

"The idea is very correct, but at present, the hardware conditions are not up to the requirements!"

After speaking, Li Zetian took out a design drawing from the drawer, "If the technology meets the requirements, I would have taken out this design drawing a long time ago!"

Zhang Yan looked at the design drawings, his face was stunned and shocked.

He just came up with an idea, and Li Zetian had already completed the drawing design!

It is a clamshell PC with a shell design, with a keyboard and display in the front and a host in the back. Of course, this design is already the best design Li Zetian can think of, the notebook host after the 21st century is placed directly under the keyboard, but the current hardware is too big, 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, but it turns out that Mr. Li you have thought of it a long time ago, and even the drawings have been designed!"

Li Zetian patted Zhang Yan's shoulder and said, "You are still very good to be able to go with me!"

As soon as 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 means that I am also a genius, hahaha......

"Mr. Li, is the small print MacBook on the design paper the name of this portable personal computer?"

"That's right!" Li Zetian said, "The Mac computer that Jobs is developing belongs to the desktop, and the MacBook belongs to the laptop, which is what you call a portable personal computer!"

"Laptops? Well, that's a pretty figurative metaphor!"

Zhang Yan paused and asked, "Then when are we going to develop the MacBook?"

"In a few years!"

Li Zetian thought to himself, if the operating system and software are put into the memory ROM of the laptop, its capacity is obviously not enough, the current ROM is only a few tens of KB, and it is expensive to death. As a result, more storage media is required. It's a pity that the hard disk is super large, so I won't consider this. 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 was larger than the thick Xinhua Dictionary.

In 1980, Sony was the first to introduce a smaller, larger-capacity 3.5-inch floppy drive and floppy disk. Since then, 3.5-inch floppy disks and drives have become standard on PCs. This absolute monopoly lasted for more than a decade, and it was not until the advent of CD-ROM and USB storage devices that floppy disk sales began to decline gradually.

As a top technician, Zhang Yan naturally understood what Li Zetian was worried about, so he said: "Mr. Li, we can devote ourselves to the development of smaller software drivers!" On the one hand, this can create revenue for Apple, and on the other hand, it will help the research and development !! MacBook."

Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, "Well, that's a good idea! Well, let's start building Apple's disk department now!!

Zhang Yan smiled and said, "Mr. Li, let Wozniak be in charge of the Apple-lll project alone, and I will be responsible for the development of floppy drives and MacBooks." ”

Li Zetian said: "You are in charge of the MacBook, I already have a candidate for the floppy drive!"

"Who is this person?" asked Zhang Yan curiously.

"Hey, IBM Alan Shugart, inventor of floppy disks and hard disk drives!!"

"Uh, Mr. Li, are you sure you can poach such a talent to Apple?"

Alain Shugart was not a lonely man, although he worked for IBM, he and a friend founded Shugart Associates, a company specializing in floppy disk manufacturing, in 1973, but was fired by the company's board of directors in 1974. I believe that as long as the benefits are big enough, he will definitely be attracted!"

Li Zetian even knew that Alan Shugart chose to leave IBM and founded the famous Seagate Technology Company!

"Mr. Li, I didn't think you were so clear about his investigation!"

Li Zetian smiled slightly: "Success is not so simple! Didn't someone say that one minute on the stage will take ten years off the stage." If you want to be successful, you must put in the effort! Okay, I'm going to go out and dig up the "Father of Disks" into our Apple company later!!"

"Hmm!" Zhang Yan couldn't help but nod excitedly when he heard this, Apple is becoming more and more talented, which is very proud.

……

Li Zetian has already sorted out a lot of information about Alain Shugat, so he is full of confidence in digging the foot of the wall this time!

That night, Li Zetian personally made a phone call to Alain Shugart.

"Are you Alain Shugart?"

"Yes, may I ask you ......?"

"I'm Chronos Li, the founder of Apple!"

Hearing this, Alain Shugart was stunned, did not speak, and said secretly, why did the founder of Apple call me?

"Hello, Mr. Li, what are you looking for me?"

"Shugart, have you ever thought about jumping ship to Apple?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I didn't think about it!"

"Hehe, don't be too busy refusing yet! Please listen to me tell me my terms! Apple is planning to set up a subsidiary specializing in disk drive development, Seagate Technology, if you can jump ship from IBM, I can give you an annual salary of $50,000......"

Hearing this, Alain Shugart's heart tightened, an annual salary of $50,000, a sky-high salary, more than twice as high as his own in IBM!

Without waiting for Alain Shugart to come back to his senses, Li Zetian continued, "In addition, there is also a 5% stake in Seagate Technology, if you can bring a group of very skilled engineers from IBM, I can also add 1%-2% shares to you, and the more people you bring over, the more shares you will have! I can promise these people that their salaries will be at least 20% higher than in IBM!"

Alain Shugart did not speak, and was in a state of hesitation.

"Mr. Li, I'm going to think about it. ”

"No problem, I'll wait for you!"

With that, the two ended the call.

As a result, Alain Shugart thought about it all night tonight and lost sleep.

Li Zetian didn't completely count on Alan Shugart, he personally called the outstanding disk development engineers of Sony, DEC and many other companies one by one, and also promised high salaries and shares, but the number was much lower than Alan Shugart.

There is no leaky wall in the world, some engineers refused Li Zetian's request, and then said the matter of digging the foot of the wall, and soon, the industry knew that Apple was going to enter the field of disks.

Alain Shugart didn't hesitate for long, and called Li Zetian on the third day, but he made a request, increase the shares!

"Mr. Li, if you give me 10% of Seagate Technology's shares, I would like to join the company, and at least 10 IBM disk development engineers can be brought over!"

"10 disk development engineers didn't overdo it, right?"

"I swear in God's name, absolutely not, they are all a group of excellent engineers! If you don't believe me, you can test their abilities for yourself!"

"Okay, I will!"

Li Zetian said, "I agreed to your request!!

The 10% stake will be diluted in the future, and if Alain Shugart's stake is too small, he will certainly not work wholeheartedly, and there is no such good thing as a good thing for the horses to run well and for the horses not to eat grass.

A week later, IBM broke out in a mass job-hopping incident.

Alan Shugart moved to Seagate Technology, a division of Apple, with 10 disk development engineers. At the same time, other companies have also jumped ship.

IBM was furious.

"Apple is so deceitful!"

"Chairman, what do you say!!"

PS: Asking for a ticket, I'm lagging behind again~~~ Afternoon code words, night code words, so hard, I should be able to write two or three more chapters, ask for votes!