May 1984, Shenzhen, Great Wall Computer Company.

Wang Zhihe, general manager of Great Wall Computer Company, and the company's engineers were bloodshot, but their spirits were very excited.

"Success!?"

"Yes, it worked!"

"The compatibility is fully up to standard, although, due to hardware configuration factors, the color is far inferior to the Pangu host, but the cassette on the Pangu platform is fully compatible!"

"Hard work!" Wang Zhi said excitedly, "When we get the big order of Xinye Electronics, the R&D personnel will each be given a bonus of 200 yuan!"

Since the Great Wall Computer Company is a state-owned enterprise, even if it has learned from the market-oriented economy of Shenzhen and Hong Kong in terms of system, the incentive system cannot reach the level of a new start-up electronics company.

Of course, compared with most domestic enterprises, the salary standard of Great Wall Computer Company is already high, even the ordinary monthly salary has reached more than 100 yuan. In addition to this, there are overtime pay and various bonus incentives. If you don't compare it with Xinchuang Electronics, then the employees of Great Wall Company are still very happy.

You must know that in many domestic enterprises, the internship salary of apprentices is about 18 yuan per month, and formal employees generally get a monthly salary of 36 yuan. Many urban workers often rely on dozens of yuan a month to support their families.

Originally, the predecessor of the Great Wall Company, the Microprocessor Research Laboratory of the Electronic Technology Application Research Institute of the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, was established in 80 years, because the domestic computer technology is not advanced, and it is not clear about the future direction of technological development, so it has taken a follow-up approach to research and development. In the beginning, the institute had dozens of microcomputer projects, most of which followed the world's mainstream microcomputer products. At the beginning, there were two main streams - the 05 project of the Intel series and the 06 project of the Motorola series.

These two microcomputer projects follow the technical roadmap of two of the world's largest CPU manufacturers. This is also China's unique wisdom, in the decades since the reform and opening up, China has never made a fatal mistake in the choice of technology camp, and has always sided with the winner.

The reason is actually very simple - whenever there is a choice of technical route, China relies on the resource advantage of a big country, and bets on different technical routes, and that technical route ultimately wins, then it will invest more resources in that technical route.

To put it simply, it is the grass on the wall, when there is no way for technology to lead the development of the technical route, who is strong and who mixes, such an undisciplined strategy, most countries can't learn!

Why? Because, the investment of each technical route not only requires a lot of money, but also needs a large number of talents, a country with a population of tens of millions of billions, even if the economy is developed, but the talent is not enough, sometimes, either do not choose to miss the development opportunities of the industry, or may choose at least part of the technical route to gamble, the gamble is naturally to maximize the benefits, and the investment before losing the bet is in vain.

China can fully invest because by the beginning of the 21st century, the scale of Chinese polytechnic talent is roughly larger than that of Europe as a whole. With the advantage of massive talents, we can bet on all technical routes, which is more comprehensive than any country's industrial chain.

Although the country in the 80s was poor, it also had a certain temperament of later generations.

Historically, the Great Wall Computer Company was established because the country saw that the PC camp had shown an absolute advantage, so the 05 series won the victory, and after the establishment of the Great Wall Computer Company, it was also based on the production of PC compatible machines. Unlike Lenovo, which also produces PC-compatible machines, the development process of the Great Wall is still quite ideal, the Great Wall company did not obtain IBM's motherboard technology at the beginning, its motherboard is its own research and development, in addition, graphics display chips, Chinese operating system, are also independent research and development of its company.

If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese computer market was too small in the 80s, Great Wall might have grown into a giant. Moreover, in the history of the development of the Great Wall, some localization efforts are often made, for example, from the 90s to the beginning of the 21st century, the Great Wall was once the only domestic brand that developed and produced hard disks, although later the Great Wall's hard disks were gradually eliminated by the market because they could not keep up with the technological development of the hard disk industry. However, the courage to try is already very remarkable. Even if you lose, you can say that you have worked hard.

In this era, the Great Wall did not make a PC compatible machine, but made a Great Wall X8 computer that is backward compatible with Pangu computer. The main reason is that in the production of PC compatible machines, the main hardware has to be imported, which consumes a lot of foreign exchange resources, and the selling price can only be tens of thousands of yuan, and there is no big market in China. The X8 chip is not only cheap, only 25 yuan. Moreover, there is no need to use valuable foreign exchange resources. In addition, the cheapest machine produced by the X8 chip is even half the price of the 8088CPU. A computer of a few hundred yuan will naturally have a market prospect of more than a computer of tens of thousands of yuan in China.

Of course, the computers in the domestic government enterprise office market are basically Pangu computers, which are not very expensive, only 1999 yuan ~ 2999 yuan, and their performance can already meet the office in the Chinese environment.

Great Wall X8 is a teaching learning machine in China, its products are basically less than 1,000 yuan, the cheapest model is even only 299 yuan a piece.

Lin Qi asked Gao Tian to come up with a cheap X8 game console as quickly as possible, while Gao Tian was directly lazy to find the Great Wall computer.

The 299 yuan model that Great Wall Computer has launched has been streamlined and improved to make it fully compatible with Pangu's cassette games, and through large-scale procurement and production, its cost has been reduced to $30.

In fact, the current domestic official exchange rate has no reference value, and the import and export settlement is mainly based on foreign exchange such as US dollars, and the RMB does not play a role in foreign trade. At the same time, those who need to use foreign exchange cannot exchange it through the official banking industry, because the official exchange rate bank will suffer. Basically, the black market exchange rate is the real exchange rate, and the current real exchange rate is between 4.5~5 RMB for 1 US dollar.

The X8 host compatible with Pangu cassette developed by Great Wall Company can achieve a factory cost of 160 yuan, which is equivalent to 32 US dollars according to the market exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 5 yuan (unofficial exchange rate).

The Great Wall Company is responsible for production, and the new venture electronics company is lazy and sells the machines on an OEM basis.

In order to distinguish the Pangu console, this cheap X8 console is named "Xiaobawang", "Xiaobawang" is also divided into two, a pure game console, which can be compatible with Pangu's small-capacity cassette games, with a reference market price of 30 US dollars.

The other is a learning machine, which adds a keyboard and mouse, which users can use to learn typing and familiarize themselves with the interface of office software, and even learn some simple programming, but because the configuration is too poor, they can only be familiar with the working environment, which cannot replace the mainstream computers on the market. Thanks to the addition of a mouse and keyboard, the market price of this machine has risen to $40.

In general, these two products are fighters in cheap hosts, and they are manufactured not to make money, but to disrupt the situation and slaughter the market!