The visit to Wang An's computer started from the headquarters, the first office building closest to the highway is the administrative department, the administrative atmosphere here is not much to say, with the American administrative style of Chinese society, this set of things looks good, but in essence, it is just like that, as a reference, but it is not very realistic to copy.

Wang Lie also seems to be a little reluctant to take people to visit the company's administrative department, just after a casual visit, and then immediately entered the company's technical building, although not all the technical team of Wang An's company, but it is definitely the core.

It's a pity that even the core scientific research department of Wang An Computer Company is still a word processor development project here, all of which revolve around various improvements of the 1200 word processor, as well as the development of peripheral technology.

Looking left and right, Wang Zhengguo did not see any development projects related to personal PCs, in fact, at the beginning of the establishment of Wang An Computer Company, the company was not a single-purpose device such as a word processor.

As far back as 1964, Wang An computer came out with the "Luosai" desktop computer, which almost laid the prototype of the modern PC (personal computer), compared with its peers, its size is small, simple to operate, but more powerful, and even can quickly calculate complex mathematical formulas, users can also program on it.

Wang An computer opened the door to modern PC computers, but in the most competitive seventies, in the field of the most fierce competition in the seventies chose to withdraw, later people can not understand the considerations behind this decision, but think about it carefully, the reason is nothing more than the fierce competition led to a sharp decline in profits, so Wang An decided to break his wrist, give up the previous achievements, and instead develop a single-purpose but huge profit word processing machine.

"Excuse me, is your company's "Lotsai" project still developing, if so, I would like to be able to see the project team, we are actually planning to make personal PCs, so I hope to visit this department. ”

The era of personal PCs has long arrived, and Wang An's computer is still insisting on word processors as later legends, and even does not make any changes?

Obviously not, although the main focus is on the word processing machine, but the PC computer eye-catching is still following up, Wang An computer in the 80s even developed better products than IBM-PC, but because Wang An and IBM are rivals, this caused Wang An computer to continue to rest on its laurels, Shengsheng put his PC computer project in the huge IBM-PC computer system siege, and was finally defeated by the machine sea tactics.

It was also when Wang Zhengguo mentioned Luo Sai that Wang Lie was not surprised, and he even agreed a little.

"Lotsy, you mean our company's PC project, this thing is being developed in Lowell City, 25 miles from Boston, where the company used to be headquartered, if you're interested, I can arrange to show you there tomorrow. ”

Maybe Wang Lie also knows the importance of personal PCs, but the situation of Wang An Computer is that word processors account for the majority of profits, since word processors can make a lot of profits, and even push Wang An computers to the throne of giants, so why not continue to invest in this field?

Anyway, it is impossible to leave the word processor R&D department in the hometown as the pillar of the company's profitability, of course, to focus on, and even invest the best resources.

Since I can't see the PC department of Wang An's computer in the Boston headquarters, I naturally don't have much interest in the follow-up, and then I watched the company's sales and after-sales, although there are some gains in half a day, but it is far from meeting expectations, and the only thing that is still interesting is probably the meeting with Wang An himself in the afternoon.

As the founder, decision-maker, and chief technical officer of the company, Wang An himself should occupy the company's largest and best office, and the fully transparent floor-to-ceiling windows can easily see the bustling Highway 495 (a branch of Highway 128) in front of the building.

"I heard that you are also engaged in the computer industry, which is very good, I heard the news about the independent computer industry in that land in my hometown, the last time I heard about it, it was the mainland government that purchased IBM mainframes in large quantities for the census, I remember it should be last year's news. ”

For any news and intelligence of his old rival IBM that he wants to defeat, Wang An is the first to pay attention, not to mention that this is still IBM into Wang An's homeland, although Wang An's computer does not produce mainframes, can not provide domestic competition options, but he also has to pay attention.

Wang Zhengguo is in a state of hoodwink, the country was able to purchase a large number of IBM mainframes in 82, which is unheard of, it seems that the US embargo on the Republic in this year is really in name only, no wonder this time can easily be introduced to the full set of design and production of 65C02 processors.

Of course, this should also be one of the reasons why the country chose IBM-PC when determining the PC computer route, after all, this is a company that is very friendly to the Republic, and there is no reason not to be optimistic about the other party.

Knowing the relationship between IBM and Wang An Computer, at this time you can't stand in the wrong line and say the wrong thing: "The matter of the mainframe is not clear, I am only engaged in PC computer development work, to put it more bluntly, it should be the development of Chinese character office processing machine, which overlaps with Wang An Computer's business positioning." ”

At first, Wang An was not optimistic about the three-person expedition team from the mainland, thinking that it was just a casual look, but at this time he realized that he was wrong, this is a company that is also engaged in the development of word processing machines, but it is a Chinese character processing machine, which is still different from Wang An's computer.

"Do you make a word processor, or do you process Chinese characters? Yes, if you can make it successfully, this will indeed have a certain market, and it will definitely sell well in the mainland market, just like our Wang An company's word processing machine sells well in the United States. ”

Wang An is optimistic about the Chinese character processor that Wang Zhengguo is working on, but he has no plans to develop the same product, and the developers of Wang An's computer are all in the United States, and they are not familiar with the Republic, let alone the development of Chinese characters, which is recognized as the most complex language in the world.

Since the world's famous word processors are optimistic, Wang Zhengguo decided to release another big killer at this time, and was flattered and surprised.

"Really, that's great, although our products already have a full set of technical solutions, but we are still a little uncertain about the market, and to be able to get the doctor's affirmation, I am even more convinced of this path. Of course, when we came to the United States this time, we actually hoped to get the help of Wang An, the global word processor giant, and I believe that this will be a win-win outcome. ”

Seeking his own help? Wang An smiled, sure enough, he went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and he was also making a word processor, maybe the other party was encountering some problems, right?

Considering that this was a guest from his hometown, he did not immediately refuse: "Oh, yes? Then you can tell me first, if it is within my ability, it is not impossible to help, although I have created a great career in the United States and become a role model among the Chinese, but I still hope to help the development of the motherland, which is what all the descendants of Yan and Huang think in their hearts." ”