American Cable Television (AMV) is the first pay television network in the United States, founded in 1969. In 1973, the TV station ushered in the first Chinese CEO in history, Bruce Wen Bingxi. After he came to power, he carried out a drastic reform of American cable television, spending a lot of money to buy well-produced TV dramas, which made AMV a smash hit in the United States in the 70s.

At that time, AMV did not have its own TV drama production department, so it was purchased from outside at a high price, so AMV made a long break in the 70s, but it was not very profitable. As a pay-per-view television station, AMV is not half a star worse than the other five major TV stations.

So from 78 onwards, Wen Bingxi began to set up a TV drama production department and began to try TV drama production. But the ratings are extremely poor. The first self-made TV series failed.

In 1984, under the mediation of Wen Bingxi, AMV was merged into Rainbow Media Holding Group and renamed American Movie Classics, or AMC for short. Anthony Wen became the first CEO of AMC.

Throughout the '80s, AMC Cable TV was originally a pay TV station specializing in old classic movies from the '50s.

In 1987, AMC Cable joined the Basic Cable TV camp. Viewers only need to pay a certain fee to the cable TV system service provider, and they can receive and watch the programs of AMC cable TV station without paying another fee. As a result of the reduction in fees, the channel attracted a large number of viewers, and by 1989 there were more than 39 million subscribers in the United States.

By 1997, Wen Bingxi, who was in his fifties, became the CEO of Rainbow Media Holding Group, and he once again began to try his hand at self-made TV dramas, and they were very successful. He retired in 2011. He died of a heart attack in 2016.

After reading his information, Li Yixuan called him a cow in his heart, a super cow.

If you can get in touch with him, you can use him to make your own TV series in the future. Now judging from the time, Wen Bingxi should be looking for scripts everywhere.

This is not an easy thing to do, pay TV stations are different from free TV stations, there are no ads, and the revenue is all paid by the audience. If you want the audience to pay willingly, the quality of the TV series must be absolutely guaranteed.

Classics like "Shootout," "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men," "The Walking Dead," "Prison Break," and others are guaranteed to make the audience pay willingly.

Maybe it's a problem for others, but it's not a problem for Li Yixuan at all, there are too many classic American TV series on the two time and space networks. If you take the script, revise it, and remake it, you will definitely get a lot of ratings.

The more Li Yixuan thought about it, the more he felt that it was feasible, so he asked Will Wright to try to contact Wen Bingxi to see if there was a possibility of cooperation.

However, it's not enough to just hold the animated script of "Transformers", people like Wen Bingxi are the masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, and people won't agree to put your cartoons for the sake of you being a Chinese compatriot, you have to come up with something that makes him happy.

Li Yixuan, after thinking about it, decided to use the script of the TV series "Prison Break" as his meeting gift. Anyway, this TV series was filmed by Wen Bingxi in history.

Will Wright went to the United States, and with his relationship with Wen Bingxi back then, he was happy that the other party would meet him, but it was hard to say how it would be after the meeting, although "Prison Break" was a great success in the 21st century, I don't know if it would be successful decades in advance, and it is not clear whether Wen Bingxi will like it. In short, there are too many uncertainties.

I don't want to think so much for the time being, so let's focus on my hard drive project, after all, this is the foundation of my current life.

When I came to the factory, I sampled a batch of assembled hard disks, and I didn't want to meet my own requirements. But these drives aren't really finished yet. It must go through a final process before it can be put into use.

Factory-produced hard drives must go through three processing steps: low-level formatting, partitioning, and high-level formatting before computers can use them to store data. The low-level formatting of the disk is usually done by the manufacturer to delineate the sectors and tracks that can be used by the disk and mark the problematic sectors, while the user needs to use the disk utilities provided by the operating system such as "fdisk.exe" and other programs to "partition" and "format" the hard disk.

When it comes to hard disk partitions, you must use hard disk formats, and there are four commonly used partition formats, namely FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux. Where there was an earlier partition format HFS.

HFS regardless of it, let's just say the four common ones.

Folds FAT16, which is the most common disk partition format in MS-DOS and Win 95 operating systems. It uses a 16-bit file allocation table, can support a partition of up to 2GB, is currently the most widely used and most supported by the operating system of a disk partition format, almost all operating systems support this format, from DOS, Win 95, Win 97 to the current Win 98, Windows NT, Win 2000, and even the popular Linux all support this partition format.

However, FAT16 has a very fatal drawback, which is the low efficiency of disk utilization. Because in DOS and Windows, disk files are allocated on a cluster-by-cluster basis, and a cluster is only allocated to one file for use, regardless of how much the file occupies the entire cluster capacity. In this way, even if a file is small, it will take up a cluster, and all the remaining space will be idle there, resulting in a waste of disk space.

Due to the limitation of the capacity of the partition table, the larger the partition supported by FAT16, the larger the capacity of each cluster on the disk, and the greater the waste. So to solve this problem, Microsoft has launched a brand new disk partition format, FAT97, in Win 32.

FAT32 is an upgraded version of FAT16, which uses a 32-bit file allocation table, which greatly enhances its disk management ability and breaks through the FAT16 limit of only 2GB for each partition. The advantage is that in a partition of no more than 8GB, the capacity of each cluster in the FAT32 partition format is fixed at 4KB, which can greatly reduce disk waste and improve disk utilization compared to FAT16.

However, his shortcomings are also very obvious, first of all, disks with FAT32 format partitions, which run slower than FAT16 partitioned disks due to the expansion of the file allocation table.

As personal computers enter the 64-bit era, the capacity of hard disks is getting larger and larger, people's requirements for the read and write speed of hard disks are getting higher and higher, as well as the harsh requirements for the utilization of hard disk space.

The advantage of NTFS is that the security and stability are extremely excellent, and it is not easy to produce file fragments during use. It can record the user's operation, and through the very strict restriction of user permissions, each user can only operate according to the permissions granted by the system, which fully protects the security of the system and data.

In addition, NTFS is a recoverable file system. On NTFS partitions, users rarely need to run disk repair programs. NTFS ensures partition consistency by using standard transaction logging and recovery techniques. In the event of a system failure, NTFS uses log files and checkpoint information to automatically restore file system consistency. As a result, NTFS quickly spread across the board. It became the most commonly used format for personal computer hard drives.

In addition to the above three, there is another format that is more commonly used, but is generally used for high-performance computers and web servers, and that is Linux.

Linux is the hottest operating system in 1999, and its disk partition format is completely different from other operating systems, there are two types of disk partitions. One is the Linux Native primary partition and the other is the Linux Swap swap partition. The security and stability of these two partition formats are excellent, and when combined with the Linux operating system, the chance of panic is greatly reduced. However, the only operating system that currently supports this partition format is Linux.

In addition to this, Linux also has a file format, the EXT file format family.

EXT has the advantages of Linux Native and Linux Swap, not only has excellent security and stability, but also has a recoverable file system like NTFS. In addition, the maximum file size of EXT is 16 exabytes, and the cluster can be as large as 32 MB and as small as 1 KB, so the hard disk space utilization of EXT is the highest among all formats.

In addition, there is a variant of EXT, which is exFAT, which is often used (and can only be used for) USB flash drives, portable hard disks and other USB storage devices.

Since EXT and exFAT are of the same root and source in terms of format, there is no delay in the transfer and conversion of file data. Unlike other storage devices, due to the different formats of storage devices, the read and write speed is often sacrificed to ensure the completeness and stability of the file transfer process in order to prevent errors or damage to the file during data transfer and conversion.

It's a pity that EXT, although excellent, is only supported by the Linux operating system, not Microsoft's Windows at all. As a result, EXT is often only used on dedicated web servers such as the Web.

As for the HFS format, only previous 8-bit machines will use it. On the surface, it seems that Li Yixuan can only choose HFS at present, because FAT16, which has the lowest FAT format, also requires a 16-bit computer to run.

It's a pity that Li Yixuan won't use him anyway, reading and writing is too slow. I can't feel it now, but what to do after the hard disk format is upgraded in the future, it will be troublesome to convert FHS files to EXT.

The EXT format under Linux is divided into four file formats: EXT1, EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4, and we are most familiar with the latter two, and the front corresponds to 8-bit and 16-bit computers.

Therefore, Li Yixuan took EXT1 as the standard format of hard disks. Since the time and space of the FHS format has been born and has begun to be put into use, Li Yixuan also wrote a compatible program by the way, so that the hard disk also supports FHS, and when in use, only need to change the format in the operation interface.

After the program is copied, the hard disk is tested in all aspects, such as security, stability, vibration resistance, read and write speed, etc.

In order to maximize the utilization of hard disk space, Li Yixuan led the R&D team to continuously optimize the format program, and even FHS was repeatedly optimized.

The operating system DOS has also been upgraded, and in order to achieve the perfect match between the system and the hard disk, the operating system has also been repeatedly debugged and optimized.

Finally before the New Year of 79, Li Yixuan finally completed all the production and debugging work of the hard disk.