Chapter 0454 IBM-PC Loses Soul Figure

It's not just the old rivals in the game console industry who are in trouble, but even IBM, the big brother in the computer field, has made a lot of news.

In fact, Tang Huan's achievements in IT have only squeezed old opponents.

After all, IT applications can be almost ubiquitous, and these companies due to limited knowledge, can not accurately grasp the perfect combination of technological invention and market demand at this stage, oil and water are limited, but Tang Huan can keenly capture the pulse of the times, and then greatly expand the application scope of IT products.

It can be said that every time Tang Huan advances his IT solutions to a new field, new opportunities will arise, allowing individuals to see new employment opportunities and enterprises to discover new ways to make money.

For example, Adobe's Photoshop and other software have given birth to new industries such as desktop publishing and graphic design, and Zheru has brought out a large number of industry consultants, implementation engineers, service experts, etc.

Therefore, IBM-PC is similar to Atari, although it has been robbed of the position of the industry leader, but the background is hard enough, and the business is still carried out vigorously.

Take the blue giant as an example, the launch of IBM-PC has brought positive changes to its financial report, the stock price has climbed from the initial $55 to about $80, and the market value has swelled from more than $30 billion to nearly $50 billion.

You know, the overall economic situation in the United States is still in a depression stage.

Therefore, the blue giant's upward trend against the market is enough to prove that IBM-PC has succeeded.

Naturally, as the head of IBM-PC's division, Don Estlic was a source of fame and fortune. Under the heavy touting of IBM's PR department. He became the center of IBM-PC, and all the media outreach.

Seeing Don Estlic trim his hair, dressed up in a glamorous manner, and taking on a stand more and more, and accepting people's praise with ease, one man could not help but feel pantothenic acid in his heart. I can't balance it anymore.

This person is the "forgotten name" Liu Oegbrecht, an extremely important chief engineer in the chess project, whose relationship with the IBM-PC is similar to that between Wolds and Apple II, and it was he who developed the prototype of the IBM-PC with his bare hands.

After the successful completion of the chess project, Liu Oegbrecht, as the chief designer of IBM-PC, received a $50,000 prize from IBM headquarters.

But this was only an acknowledgment within the company, and Liu Ogbrecht wanted even 15 minutes of public praise, but all the glory went to Don Estlic.

Originally. Shortly after the start of the chess project, the promoter Bill Lowo was promoted and left the project team, and Liu Ogbrecht thought that he would take over Bill Lowo's place as a matter of course, but did not expect Don Estlic to be parachuted.

Thinking of this knot, Liu Ogelbrecht felt more and more that he had been despised and resentment began to arise in his heart.

In this case, Liu Ogbrecht and another long-time collaborator have worked with. Start talking about the idea of leaving the Big Blue and starting a company. The business is to design, manufacture and sell circuit boards that enable IBM-PCs to interface with IBM mainframe computers.

This kind of peripheral product is not a difficult thing in the eyes of Liu Ogelbrecht, who has a deep understanding of computers.

Without resigning from IBM, Liu Ogelbrecht and his colleague founded a company called Bridge Technology.

This act clearly violates the terms of the employment contract that all employees of IBM are required to sign - all inventions and creations made by employees of IBM during their employment belong to IBM.

But Liu Ogbrecht and his team made a desperate investment and brought in another promoter as a partner. The company's business plan is to sell these peripheral products to various companies that are selling IBM-PCs.

The paper could not contain the fire, and the situation of Liu Ogerblecht's second career was inevitably revealed in the end, and the problem was broken by the corporate customers they contacted. Took the initiative to report the transaction to IBM.

The founder of the company, TecMar, in Cleveland, Ohio, is a doctor who was impressed by the business opportunities offered by the PC.

The old man once bought two IBM-PCs from a chain store in Chicago from Computer Yard, added hard disk systems, sold them and made a small profit.

Martin Alpert founded TecMar to expand the business, and the company's growth was somewhat unexpected.

When Bridge Technologies called Martin Alpert and suggested a new product that would connect the IBM-PC to the IBM mainframe computer, it was revealed that there were many more products being designed and developed by the chief designer of IBM-PC, which would put everyone in a competitive position.

Martin Alpett was immediately impressed by the capabilities of these products from Bridge Technologies, and agreed to meet with Liu Ogelblecht and others.

However, just before the meeting, Martin Alpert began to get scared. He suspected that Liu Ogbrecht and others were providing trade secrets to him, which could lead to a lawsuit from IBM and even the loss of the fast-growing TecMar.

Martin Alpert has been torn between opportunity and risk for a long time.

Eventually, Martin Alpert picked up the phone and reported to IBM's security department about the meeting he had agreed with Liu Ogelblecht.

The Blue Giant's response was swift, and a team of IBM security guards flew to Cleveland and gave Martin Alpert a tape recorder.

On a Saturday morning on September 11 this year, Martin Alpert met with Liu Ogelblecht, who was also an employee of IBM, and his companions. As they pitched the new product, Martin Alpert recorded the conversation.

As you can imagine, Liu Ogbrecht was soon dismissed.

At a hastily convened meeting. Don Estlic made a public account of what had happened, and finally said, "One of us is a thief." This morning, we fired Liu Oegbrecht for trying to sell our IBM secrets to a company in Cleveland, Ohio. ”

When the staff of the IBM-PC department learned about this, they were very shaken, and they didn't say anything else. The first is that IBM-PC has lost a technical soul.

And Liu Ogbrecht's colleagues, engineers who had worked at IBM for more than two decades, were inevitably confused. Why did Liu Ogbrecht make a fuss about a second career?

In the hearts of these people, Liu Ogbrecht is the best engineer, but he has done such a thing, so as a peer, where is the future?

"IBM's personal computer department has been a little absent-minded from top to bottom, and it hasn't eased up yet. AMD President Jerry Sanders finished the gossip with a lot of eloquence. So concluded.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, AMD, as a third-party chip manufacturer, has seized the business opportunities of chips such as interrupts, DMA, clocks, etc., which are needed by Fangyuan Computer and IBM-PC.

In addition, the compatible version of Intel8086 produced by AMD has excellent performance in terms of power consumption and clock frequency.

When Intel's supply to Fangyuan computers fell off the chain. AMD also made up for the position in a timely manner and expanded the proportion of its supply. As a result, its position in the industry has also been significantly improved.

"You went around IBM and brought back such a lace news?" Tang Huan asked disappreciatively.

"The impact of this incident within IBM is not serious, right?" Jerry Sanders asked unconvinced, "at least it will drag IBM-PC to catch up with Fangyuan Computer, Liu Ogblecht is the chief designer of IBM-PC." ”

"The impact of fart. Tang Huan snorted, "If it was a small company with weak cohesion, it might collapse at that time, or even a medium-sized company." But IBM is a vast kingdom in which individuals are small in relation to the whole, and can be touted as individual heroes if needed. But his position and role are not indispensable. ”

"Well, I'll tell you about the rest of what I've heard. Jerry Sanders shrugged, "IBM-PC has come out with an enhanced model, native to the hard disk system, but the further specifications, I don't know." ”

"I've heard that, like the Fangyuan computer, it is equipped with a 5.25-inch hard drive with a capacity of 10MB. Tang Huan was not surprised by this news, he had already received the corroboration of the hard drive order from Seagate, but this source, there is no need to be so clear with Jerry Sanders.

In addition, it is said that the second career of Liu Ogbrecht woke up the top management of IBM, who planned to launch an IBM mainframe terminal in the form of an IBM-PC. ”

Speaking of this, Jerry Sanders smiled bitterly, "After I heard these news, I felt quite touched, why are you indifferent? You are worthy of being the richest man in the United States, calm enough." ”

"Because I don't have to be afraid of IBM now. Tang Huan smiled firmly, "And in addition to competition, there is also cooperation between us, such as Chinese, Japanese and other Far Eastern languages supported by technology patents, IBM has asked me." ”

"I'm not in the mood to study the game between you big companies, and I came to you this time to seek financial assistance. Jerry Sanders looked directly at Tang Huan, "We have developed an Intel80286 compatible processor, which is already very resource-intensive, but if you still want Intel80286 with CMOS process, then you have to reach out to help." ”

"No problem. Tang Huan nodded very happily, "AMD has a lot of experience in optimizing chips, I believe in your ability, and I am also very much looking forward to the performance of Intel80286 in CMOS process in terms of operating frequency and power consumption." ”

"I've heard that you've got some new sound processing chips and network chips here...... "Jerry Sanders greedily continued to probe.

"Stop. Tang Huan waved his hand to cut off Jerry Sanders' thoughts, "Believe me, you will definitely benefit immensely if you thoroughly understand the design and manufacturing of Intel80286 first." When this is done, I'll give you a list of other types of chips. ”

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Tang Huan was not as indifferent to the Liu Ogblecht affair as Jerry Sanders seemed.

You must know that the blue giant is definitely a charismatic employer in the eyes of employees, and Liu Oegbrecht, who has served IBM for many years, can also be called a key member of the IBM-PC department, but he still has resentment and dissent, which is inevitably a bit intriguing.

Tang Huan knows very well in his heart that his company, in terms of qualifications, status, sense of honor, etc., is still a long way from an established enterprise like IBM in terms of seniority, status, and honor, and this kind of software factor can only catch up step by step, and it is impossible to achieve it overnight.

The reason why a large number of people follow themselves into the world is mainly because of the hardware factor of real money and the attraction of bright prospects, and the so-called like-mindedness is inevitably a little empty.

Many of the projects that Tang Huan is starting in his hands are with core figures like Liu Ogblecht, and once the other party is not strong enough to swallow the elephant, it will be a real trouble.

Therefore, Tang Huan, who was a little ignorant, deliberately took time out to pay attention to the company's personnel relations.

Tang Huan was busy eliminating hidden dangers, and the backyard began to feel resentful, after all, he took Monica Bellucci with him in the name of teaching, and his acquaintances understood what was going on.

As a result, the women with sour feelings in their hearts were embarrassed by Tang Huan in their own forms.

Zhao Yazhi was busy recovering after giving birth, and asked Tang Huan to take time to take care of the baby who was not long after the full moon.

Lin Fengjiao also sent her two sons over, saying that if they didn't get along any longer, the children wouldn't know Tang Huan.

Coincidentally, Deng's father was ill, and Deng's mother was really worried, so she temporarily sent her grandson to San Francisco and returned to Treasure Island by herself.

In other words, Tang Huan had to face six babies at the same time, and his head was suddenly huge.

The four big babies will run all over the ground, skewering everywhere, and Tang Huan will be dizzy, so he asked the four little guys to form a team in pairs and play basketball.

Tang Huan was serving as a referee for the four young players while observing their temperament.

The remaining two babies were placed in the stroller, and Tang Huan held the bottle aside.

Not to mention, Tang Huan's arrangement is also orderly. Watching the four living treasures on the court, you pushed me and dragged me to play, which made him laugh vigorously, invisibly, so that the brain, which was busy calculating all day long, had a rare rest. (To be continued......)