Steve Jobs once famously said: Only one outstanding person can top 50 mediocre employees. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Li Zetian very much agrees with this sentence.

He did the math and offered Wozniak $20 for one hour, $10 for an average engineer, $20 for two, and $30 for three......

A technical problem that an ordinary engineer can't solve in a few days or even a dozen days can solve, while Wozniak may solve it in a few minutes.

That's the value of a top engineer!!

The next night, Wozniak went to Apple's headquarters, the garage.

Wozniak was not surprised, and his garage was used as a laboratory.

"Just the two of us?!" he asked, surprised.

"What's the matter, you don't have confidence in yourself?" Li Zetian smiled and asked rhetorically.

"It's nothing, two people are two people!" Wozniak said indifferently, "what kind of personal computer do you want to design?"

Li Zetian opened a locked drawer with a key, and then took out a design drawing from it, "This is my design drawing, there are some text instructions next to it, you take it and see it first, and then we will discuss whether this design plan will work, where to modify?" Li Zetian handed the design to Wozniak.

"Well, okay!"

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 drawings, Li Zetian secretly looked at him, only to see Wozniak's face showing shock!

Li Zetian secretly said: "I try not to add the advanced design concepts of the future to it, but I still shocked the cattle of this era, hehe......"

"What a wonderful design, especially the design of this PC expansion bus is absolutely epoch-making! A total of 100 plugs, only 86 plugs, and 14 expansion plugs are reserved, and the computer produced can be compatible with a variety of 8-bit microprocessors through the expansion bus, and even quickly adapt to 16-bit technology!!"

Wozniak's eyes lit up and he was full of praise for it!!

In short, the bus is a public communication trunk through which various parts of the computer can transmit various data and commands!

In fact, each part of the computer is a module, and the connection relationship between the modules is through the bus, and if the bus is standardized, then the module is universal - compatible!!

Li Zetian's purpose in designing the PC expansion bus is to establish a bus standard, which belongs to Apple's bus standard, and in the future, Apple-ll models of PCs will be developed to be compatible with many products on the market and promote Apple-ll sales!!

When the time comes, Apple-ll's expansion slot will be just as big a killer!

"Wozniak, what do you think of my design?"

"Excellent, perfect!"

"In that case, let's start making it happen!!"

"Good !!," Wozniak replied excitedly, he couldn't wait at this moment!

That night, Wozniak stayed up all night, but by the morning, he was already in good spirits. Seeing that the time to go to work at HP was approaching, I reluctantly left the garage!

Li Zetian stayed up all night with him.

"Wozniak, are you still coming at night?" Li Zetian shouted loudly at his back.

"Come !!"

Tian Shuai, the owner of the house, happened to go out at this time, and he asked with a smile: "Chronos, the lights in the garage are on all night, could it be that you worked all night last night?"

"Yes, Wozniak was very excited when he saw my blueprints! Oh, by the way, that person was Wozniak, an HP engineer, working for me after work!"

Tian Shuai couldn't help laughing, "I see, 'after work' is his real working time, he has already stayed up all night, and he still has energy to work in Hewlett-Packard during the day?"

Li Zetian smiled and asked, "Are you going out to look for a job now?"

"Yes, go to Exxon for an interview!" Tian Shuai replied.

"Good luck, I'm going back to catch up on sleep!" Li Zetian waved his hand.

"Well, you go to sleep!"

Li Zetian actually wanted to say, let's stay, let's create a big situation together! However, Apple can't even afford to rent a decent headquarters, so it can only rent a garage temporarily, and the future is uncertain. Someone else is now going to the top 10 Fortune 500 Exxon companies for an interview, what can they do to keep him?

Li Zetian shook his head in his heart, this matter can only be said later.

In the days that followed, everything became very plain and monolithic.

Tian Shuai got his wish and entered Exxon, jumped to the past, and held a higher position. And Lee spends his days in Wozniak developing the Apple-l model personal computer in a small garage!

The Altair-8080 computer developed by MITS has only a main unit, no monitor, no keyboard, and no mouse, it is a computer with no monitoring program, and the user can only program this computer in binary machine language. However, when it came out, it was such a computer that shocked the industry, and the orders poured in, as the Global Catalogue described it: "It was an absolute, uncontroversial, and unbelievable overnight success." ”

Such a garbage product also deserves this kind of praise, which shows that the users at that time were really not demanding!

Li Zetian can't make such a garbage product, at least he has to have a monitor and keyboard. Forget about the mouse, with a 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 feature!

However, Li Zetian is now more worried that the progress of his own side will definitely be slower than that of MITS when developing so many things, and Wozniak is a part-time job, which leads to the development of the project even slower.

"Three stinkers are Zhuge Liang!"

A month later, Li Zetian decided to recruit one or two more people. So, he advertised a job in a local newspaper. Li Zetian did not deceive others, and stated that this was a garage business, and the company had just been established. As a result, it was not good to be too honest, and at the end of the week, no one came to apply.

At half past seven 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 worse than Wozniak!"

"It doesn't matter, as long as he is skilled, I can give him the same salary as Wozniak!!"

Tian Shuai said again: "In addition, he has a job now, and he can only do part-time!"

"It's okay!!"

"Alright then, I'll call him and ask him to come over and talk to you after work in the evening. ”

"Thank you so much!"

"It's not a big deal!"

……

Evening.

A Chinese man came to Apple's headquarters.

"Hello?!Is that Mr. Li Zetian?" he shouted inside.

"It's me, you're the engineer Tian Shuai said!" Li Zetian looked at him carefully, he was about thirty years old, and he was very calm.

"Yes, my name is Zhang Yan!"

While the two were talking, a voice suddenly came from outside the garage, "Kevin Chang, why are you here?"

It was none other than Wozniak who spoke.

"Uh, you know?" asked Li Zetian, who was stunned.

"We're Hewlett-Packard colleagues!" Zhang said with a smile.