"Well, according to what you say, I just shot and ruined your good deeds?" Zhong Yuemin looked at Cui Yang, a little girl, holding a pistol, and it was really a little twisted, "Do you want to put the guy away first?"

"Hehe, it was supposed to be, if I had been properly defended, we wouldn't have to drive so many policemen so quickly!" Cui Yang said and put the gun away, "But you were so handsome just now! Just like the prince who saved the princess in a fairy tale!"

"Okay, you mainly want to boast that you are a princess, right?!" Zhong Yuemin pulled over.

Cui Yang was so angry that his cheeks were one by one, "Why don't you ever like people to praise you?"

"I can't afford it. Zhong Yuemin said, "If people flatter you for a word or two, they want to point at you for the rest of their lives, and I will be busy and tired to death, and I will not be able to benefit from it." So, let's let others be good people!"

Cui Yang Qi knot.

Zhong Yuemin got out of the car after speaking, "I don't have a driver's license, so you should drive, don't be arrested by the police because of this." ”

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"Welcome, Yuemin! I knew you would come, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Professor Donald gave Zhong Yuemin a big hug when he saw him, and he was extremely enthusiastic.

"Professor, thank you very much for this invitation!" The old man's hand was quite strong, Zhong Yuemin quietly pushed Professor Donald's arm away, and introduced: "This is Yang, my friend, she specially drove me here." ”

"Oh, beautiful girl, thank you so much for sending Yuemin here!" Donald said, "Come on, I'll show you around." ”

The IBM headquarters is made up of several four- or five-story buildings, which are not ornate and majestic, but the huge lawn is particularly tranquil against the backdrop, which is also very in line with the atmosphere of the city of Amunk.

Maybe because it was morning, the people Zhong Yuemin and his entourage met were in a hurry, and many people were in a circle in front of the whiteboard, which should be a meeting.

"It's a great place to work!I really enjoy working with these young people, and I hope you enjoy it too. Professor Donald introduced them as he walked.

"Really energetic!"

But in fact, Zhong Yuemin had in mind that a few years later, with the rise of Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, predecessor companies such as IBM and Oracle would become synonymous with old-fashioned and redundant.

Cui Yang looked at these young people in casual clothes with great novelty, which was completely different from the working environment she had previously known.

"The information technology industry is all about innovation and efficiency, so we encourage our employees to work happily, including wearing the most comfortable clothes. ”

"Awesome!" Cui Yang said enviously, "unlike our company, which requires you to dress properly at all times and show your professionalism." ”

"Oh, what do you do?" asked Professor Donald.

Zhong Yuemin answered: "She is an accountant. ”

"I see, that's really different from these engineers. Professor Donald nodded, "Alright, we're here, this is our lab." ”

When you open the door, you will see a large open office with desks, cabinets, and whiteboards in any combination, looking messy.

"Each team has their own area, and they can combine their desks as much as they want, and they can sit on the floor and work as long as they feel comfortable!" says Professor Donald proudly.

Cui Yang was shocked, "Is the whole IBM like this?"

"Haha, it's not, it's my team that's all like this, they're all geniuses I poached from various schools and companies, I'm going to give them the best of everything and let them burn their wisdom!"

Cui Yang turned his head again and looked at the various employees in the office seriously, and the young people who were inconspicuous just now seemed to suddenly radiate a dazzling light.

Zhong Yuemin said: "Information technology is the fastest growing industry in the future, and it will create countless billionaires, and it is likely to be these young people. ”

"Is it really that powerful?" Cui Yang muttered.

Professor Donald said, "It's probably even better than you think!, but the future belongs to you young people, haha!"

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Donald invited Zhong to sit in on the lab's morning meeting, which discussed microcomputer form factor design.

The problem for attendees was how to shrink the size of the microcomputer and make it a size that could be carried around in a bag.

Therefore, the leaders of each team are concerned about how to keep the volume of the module they are responsible for, and let the other modules compress the space, and the scene of the debate can be called a war.

Zhong Yuemin was a little apprehensive after listening to it for a while, because he knew what the final product would look like, almost only a palm-sized screen, a shoebox-sized body, and a keyboard compressed to the limit.

IBM5100 did meet its design goals and gained widespread fame, even appearing in Time magazine in 1981, but it was far inferior to the Apple II in terms of sales.

"Yuemin, do you have any ideas?" Professor Donald apparently noticed Zhong Yuemin's state.

"I don't understand why the machine has to be made so small as a shoe box?" Zhong Yuemin asked.

"Haha······ God, is he stupid? to ask such a stupid question?"

Someone asked, "Who is this man?"

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"Be quiet!" Professor Donald coughed and said to Zhong Yuemin: "We plan to make a microcomputer, just to make it the smallest and most convenient, do you have any disagreement with Yuemin?"

"It's no problem to be small, but it doesn't seem to be convenient to make it the size of a shoebox, right?" Zhong Yuemin didn't pay attention to other people's discussions, "Will anyone be willing to carry a big machine of more than ten kilograms on their backs?"

"This volume is already the smallest volume that we have rigorously calculated, and it is completely impossible to be smaller!" Someone stood up and reprimanded: "I suggest you go back and read more books and study electronic materials!"

"Haha······" The crowd laughed.

Zhong Yuemin's face was not red and his heart was not beating, "Professor Donald told me just now that you are all geniuses he found, but now it seems that he may have found the wrong person, not who I am targeting, but all of you are rubbish!"

Everyone on the spot couldn't laugh, everyone stared at Zhong Yuemin with red eyes, it is estimated that if Professor Donald was not present, they would have pounced and tore Zhong Yuemin apart.

"Yuemin, can you elaborate on your thoughts?" Professor Donald said, propping his chin thoughtfully.

"I just want to ask three questions, first: what is a microcomputer, second: who is a microcomputer for, and third: why do customers use a microcomputer. Zhong Yuemin threw out a few questions, and then walked out of the conference room, leaving a room of people looking at each other.

Professor Donald was also a little confused, and followed out, "Yuemin, why did you go away?"

"Personally, I don't think they can give an answer today, so they might as well come back tomorrow. Zhong Yuemin smiled: "I'm going to go to the Smith Tavern for a drink." ”

"Well, the wine is good, and there are a lot of Civil War memorabilia to take a good look at. Professor Donald said, "Have a good day!"

"Thank you, Professor!"

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"Yuemin, did you really throw them all in the conference room?" Cui Yang asked in surprise as he followed Zhong Yuemin. ”

"Really. ”

"Why?"

"I'm afraid you'll be too bored to stay outside alone, so I came out early to walk around with you!"

Cui Yang was a little incredulous, "Really?"

"Fake. Zhong Yuemin said.

"Ah?!" Cui Yang's expression on his face didn't have time to change, and he was completely confused by Zhong Yuemin's unreasonable cards.

"Haha······" Zhong Yuemin laughed, "You're too easy to deceive!"

Cui Yang exhaled angrily: "Say it quickly, why did you release their pigeons halfway?"

"Those people claim to be geniuses, if I don't give them a little cruelty, they won't take me seriously at all!" Zhong Yuemin replied, "and they won't be willing to listen to my advice, then my trip will be in vain." ”

"Then are you considered to be dismounted?" Cui Yang said with a wink.

"It's not a bad thing, at most it's a slap in the face, so that they can sober up a little bit from their self-righteous state. Zhong Yuemin pouted, "Let's go, let's not talk about that, let's go have a drink!"

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The Smith Tavern is a historic building and landmark of the American Liberation War, and is now the headquarters of the North Town Society, but a small area is still open to the public.

At this time, there were not many people in the bar, and they were all tourists like Zhong Yuemin.

"It's so quiet here!" Cui Yang and Zhong Yuemin each asked for a glass of beer, and sat lazily under the eaves, looking at the scenery in the distance to empty themselves.

"I didn't expect such a quiet small city so close to New York, I want to settle here!" Cui Yang didn't think Zhong Yuemin would reply, as if he was talking to himself, "When the time comes, I will make a large garden, clean up the flower beds every day, cut a few cut flowers, insert them in a vase, and then lie in a hammock like this······"

"Isn't this the life of the petty bourgeoisie, if you want to live like this, can't you do it now?"

"I'm still far away! With the little money I have in hand, it is estimated that after buying a house, I will start to worry about eating! How can I be in a daze when the time comes?" Cui Yang shook his head, "I don't know if I will be able to achieve this wish when I retire?"

Zhong Yuemin closed his eyes and pinched his fingers blindly, like a blind fortune teller, Cui Yang was stunned when he saw it.

"What are you doing?"

"I just pinched my fingers and found that you can buy a house with a garden here at the earliest next year or the year after the next, and you can lie here in a daze without worry!" Zhong Yuemin predicted like a magic stick.

"Haha, you're!" Cui Yang suddenly laughed, "Then tell me, where is the opportunity for me to get rich?"

"Amitabha······ Taishang Laojun is as anxious as the law······" Zhong Yuemin pretended to be nonsense, and pointed his hand at the car on the street.

Cui Yang looked over, "Car?"

"What does it take to get the car moving?"

"You mean oil?" Cui Yang instantly remembered the conversation between Zhong Yuemin and her on the road, "You mean that you can make money in the oil futures market?"

"Well, I just calculated not only your fortune, but I also know about the rise in oil and peak oil prices, do you think we can try it?" Zhong Yuemin asked while staring at Cui Yang.

Cui Yang was entangled again, "Your finger pinching is too unreliable, right?"

"It's really unreliable, but I think I can give it a try. Zhong Yuemin clapped his hands and said: "That's it, let's go back to New York first!"

"Huh?"

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The next day, Zhong Yuemin went to Donald's laboratory again, "Yuemin, this is the answer given by the people who attended the meeting yesterday, how about you take a look?"

Zhong Yuemin flipped through it casually and found that most of them listed a large list of performance index data, and the users were the employees of the company, as Zhong Yuemin expected, there was nothing new.

"I think you've been in the lab for too long, so long that you don't eat the fireworks of the world. Zhong Yuemin threw a stack of manuscript paper on the table, "Microcomputers are relative to large-scale computers, as long as they can be placed on the desk, in the company, in the laboratory, and at home, I think they can be called microcomputers, not that they must be the size of a shoebox to be called microcomputers."

The people who want to own a computer must first and foremost be electronics enthusiasts, who want to use the computer to program, play games, and explore new ways to play, and then there are financial personnel and production planners who need to process data in large quantities.

And the last question, why do people want an IBM computer? I think it's cheap, it's easy to use, it's cool. ”

After Zhong Yuemin finished speaking, Cui Yang took the equipment pulled from Pittsburgh all the way and put it on the conference table.

Zhong Yuemin opened the box, and everyone found out that this was an Apple computer, but there were some differences, the keyboard was independent, the host was independent, the screen was very large, maybe eleven inches, and what was even more strange was that there was a small loaf-shaped machine attached to it, I don't know what it was for.

Zhong Yuemin connected the line once and plugged it in, the screen finally lit up, and the host began to buzz.

Everyone stared in amazement at the huge screen, which showed a window sign, followed by a colorful image that looked like a video game.

Zhong Yuemin uses a steamed bun-like machine, controlling the arrows on the screen, switching between different software, opening the data table for a while, and opening the document for a while.

"Sir, may I ask what you have in your hand?"

"Why are there all the squares on the screen?"

"Why didn't you enter the DOSS system and enter the command?"

"Why did you separate the console and screen?"

"Is the screen too big?"

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The impact of Zhong Yuemin's warrior's computer on everyone was too great, and everyone suddenly had countless questions and smashed at Zhong Yuemin.

"First of all, I would like to emphasize that the shape of this computer and related technology have been patented, so please take a look. Zhong Yuemin said with a smile,