"In my opinion, every place where the world is in the spotlight is a great platform to showcase. Tang Huan made a gesture of calmness, "In short, I speak for myself." ”

"I want to hear about it. Ted Turner nodded curiously.

Tang Huan beckoned, and immediately an assistant sent two handbags.

Ted Turner smiled when he saw the laptop in the first bag, "I've seen this kind of personal computer." ”

"Then you mention this small bag, estimate how much it weighs. Tang Huan invited Ted Turner to try.

"A dozen pounds. Ted Turner muttered and finally added, "No more than 15 pounds." ”

"Your answer is pretty reliable, 11 pounds to be exact, about 5 kilograms. Tang Huan took the handbag, and then took out a device that looked like a book, but was much larger.

When Ted Turner noticed that the thing with the metal casing in front of him was foldable, and when it was opened, there was a screen and a keyboard, and he immediately asked in surprise, "This, this is also a computer?"

"You don't have to doubt that this device is indeed a personal computer. Tang Huan nodded with a smile, with a smug look on his face, "Its business positioning name is Square &CircleLaptop, but we are used to nicknamed it Square &CircleNotebook, although it is still far from the volume and weight of the notebook. ”

Watching the Fangyuan laptop boot up and run a few more programs, Ted Turner was amazed. He couldn't stop saying, "It's amazing." ”

The development of computers. Naturally, it is divided into several very different directions. Since there is a quest for extreme performance, there is a quest for something short and sturdy that can be carried around, and this concept was embodied in the Xerox PARC Dynabook and Xerox NoteTaker projects as early as the 1970s.

The real commercial portable personal computer, of course, is the Osborne 1 that performed eye-catching in 1981, with an osborne generation of 10.7 kilograms. On the road of portability - portability, it has only come to the step of "mobile".

But even so, the market response was so enthusiastic that in the eight months following its debut at the West Coast Computer Festival in San Francisco in April 1981, 11,000 Osborne generation machines were sold. After the factory manufacturing link was opened, this year's monthly sales volume turned out to be an exaggerated peak - 10,000 units.

Since the market is so optimistic, it is natural that other manufacturers will quickly follow suit, and Oscom will not be allowed to monopolize this field.

The $1,795 Osborne generation was introduced to the market when it met its rival, Kaypro's Kaypro II, because of the brilliance of the Apple II. So he applied the Roman numeral "II" to the fairy spirit. And its market price is even more targeted, at $1,595.

The Osborne generation has two obvious shortcomings, firstly, it uses a 5-inch or 12-centimeter CRT monochrome display, and secondly, its floppy disk drive only supports single-sided, single-density floppy disks with a capacity of only 90KB, which is already lagging behind the storage needs of current mainstream applications.

In response to these two points, Kaypro has made corresponding enhancements to the KayproII, the display device is a 9-inch CRT monochrome display, which allows users to see the screen information more clearly, and the floppy disk drive supports single-sided dual-density floppy disks, and the capacity has been increased to 191KB, which meets the software needs of larger storage capacity.

Although it weighs 13 kilograms, the Kaypro II is no less popular in the market than the Osborne 1 due to its price and hardware specifications, while Adam Osborne's management of Osborne has made many mistakes, such as focusing on public relations and marketing and neglecting quality control.

Seeing that Adam Osborne was still following the original historical trajectory, Tang Huan was very disappointed, but it was someone's own start-up company, he had no position to make irresponsible remarks, and the other party was a person with a strong personality, so he couldn't look in the mirror - not a person inside and out.

Since Adam Osborne is very likely to fail and be eliminated from the market, Tang Huan has to pick up the category corresponding to Osborne1 in addition to the category of notebooks in the portable personal computer product line.

Fortunately, Zheru's technical reserves in this field are strong enough, and Tang Huan's holding companies Epson and RadioShack have quite successful products such as EpsonHX-20 and TandyTRS-80 respectively, and the research and development has been achieved in a flash.

In this way, in addition to Square&CircleLaptop, Square&CirclePortable has also been added to the portable category of Fangyuan Computer in the product line, that is, the two small and large personal computers in front of us.

The reason why Tang Huan rolled up his sleeves and went into battle in person after discovering that Adam Osborne's Osbourne could not support the wall was also a last resort.

After the blue giant released the technical white paper of IBM-PC, it is bound to attract a group of gold diggers to adopt this free standard and enter the personal computer industry, such as Compaq, which was only established this year.

Of course, Tang Huan could have taken over this company in advance, but it was of little significance, because this situation was different from SGI-Silicon Valley Graphics and SUN-Sun Microsystems, which entered the workstation field with their own technology, because IBM set up this bureau with a desk, and its strength was far from being comparable to SGI and SUN, which were still in the founding stage.

As the saying goes, current events create heroes, without this Compaq, there will naturally be other people who will rise up in response to the situation, relying on the big tree of IBM-PC to enjoy the shade, and the Dell in the original time and space - Dell is another example.

Therefore. In Tang Huan's opinion. Since the free IBM-PC standard of the Blue Giant. There is always a "child of destiny" to be born, so it is better to let Compaq, who knows the roots, occupy this pit.

In the IBM-PC compatible machine war in the original time and space, in the end, Compaq became the king, and IBM made a wedding dress for others.

The Blue Giant is tragic, but it is precisely because of Compaq, a vibrant and innovative third-party compatible computer manufacturer, that IBM-PC has become the market standard that dominates the world.

And this objective result is unacceptable to Tang Huan, on the premise of allowing Compaq to exist. No effort must be spared against Compaq, a brilliant IBM-PC accomplice, even though it is a contender for picking the peaches of the blue giant.

How did Compaq get on the road to kinghood?

First of all, it cracked the BIOS in the IBM-PC standard left by Big Blue in a "black box" method that does not touch copyright protection.

It then designed and built a portable, IBM-compatible PC, the CompaqPortable.

As a result, the market sales miracle was achieved in the first year, with 53,000 PCs sold and revenue of $111 million.

This shows how exciting the space of the portable PC market is.

Unfortunately, Osben is not as competitive as Apple.

Thereupon. Tang Huan, who wanted to do it in one step in the field of portable personal computers and use Fangyuan laptops to earn high-end profits. I had to sweep the low-end market with my hands, so as not to be cheapened by Compaq in vain.

Fangyuan laptops and Fangyuan laptops use Motorola's MC68000 series processors, because this family has evolved from a 32-bit version to a 16-bit and 8-bit version under the premise of the same instruction architecture, and the hardware configuration is extremely flexible.

More importantly, Tang Huan and Motorola have a very close cooperative relationship, for example, in the field of microprocessors, it is not a simple buying and selling relationship, but from design to manufacturing, almost the whole process is involved, MC68000 can be regarded as half a son.

It is precisely with Tang Huan's promotion that the development of MC68000 has greatly exceeded the level of the original time and space, and it is now the most successful general-purpose microprocessor on the market.

FAB1, a semiconductor factory in France, has made a major technological achievement, and with the cooperation of Motorola and Sharp, it has jointly launched a MC68000 CMOS technology manufacturing version MC68HC000.

MC68000 made using HMOS technology is still in a state of high power consumption even when the CPU is idle, and its power consumption is basically independent of frequency.

The MC68HC000 using CMOS technology is completely consistent with MC68000 except for the difference between CMOS and HMOS in the circuit, so its energy consumption has been greatly reduced.

According to the operating speed, there are several versions of the MC68HC000 from 8MHz to 20MHz.

At 25 degrees Celsius, the MC68000 consumes about 1.35 watts, while the MC68HC000 version, which consumes only 0.13 watts.

As the speed increases, so does the energy consumption of the MC68HC000, but the 20MHz version is only 0.38 watts.

It is no exaggeration to say that MC68HC000 is definitely the most coveted general-purpose microprocessor that Tang Huan can pursue at this stage.

One of the major technical difficulties of the second-generation Xiaobawang game console is the amount of heat dissipation, and after having MC68HC000, the problem is solved.

Fangyuan notebook computers and Fangyuan portable computers have also benefited greatly from the product performance because of the addition of MC68HC000. However, in order to establish a cost advantage in the low-end segment, the latter uses relatively low-grade CPUs.

In addition to the difference in the adoption strategy of microprocessors, another major difference between Fangyuan laptops and Fangyuan portable computers is naturally the display device.

The latter uses a 9-inch CRT monochrome display, while the former uses a 320×240-pixel Electroluminescent Display, or ELDs, which is why it can be folded and greatly reduced in weight.

There are many display technologies, such as the most common Cathode RayTube, the cathode ray tube (CRT), and the Lightemittingdiode display (LED).

As for the original time and space decades later, the Liquid-crystalDisplay-liquid crystal display that is still in the stage of technical research is still in the stage of technical research, and Tang Huan naturally participated in the research, but it was always close to the door and could not be used by Fangyuan laptops.

Tang Huan had no choice but to give up and chose the implementation of ELDs, after all, the title of the world's first laptop waits for no one.

In fact, the competition for the first place in the industry depends largely on hype, especially in a chaotic industry environment like personal computers.

For example, the T1100, which was widely recognized as the world's first laptop in 1985, is often understated by the media in its title, which is "for the mass market", because its price is generally accepted at $1,899.

The hardware configuration of Toshiba T1100 is also some distance from laptops in the general sense, the most obvious is the lack of iconic lithium-ion batteries, which is also a technical threshold that Tang Huan cannot cross at present.

Fangyuan laptops and Fangyuan portable computers both use AC power, and support UninterruptiblePowerSupply - uninterruptible power supply (UPS) developed for enterprise application products such as Fangyuan personal workstations and Fangyuan network servers.

The similarities in hardware configuration between the two are that there is no hard disk configuration, but there is a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive that supports 720KB capacity, including serial ports, parallel ports, network cards, modems, etc.

Of course, complying with Fangyuan computer standards is the proper meaning of the question.

Stroking the aluminum alloy shell of Fangyuan's laptop, Ted Turner felt a little in love, so he casually asked, "How much does this computer sell for in the market?"

"$19,999. Tang Huan replied lightly, seeing the other party's surprised look, so he added, "The product I tried is naturally the highest-end model, and the cheapest model should be $10,000." ”

"It's so expensive, and the customer range of the product is probably very limited. Ted? Turner chuckled.

"The U.S. government, NASA, the U.S. military, and other customers are waiting for my subordinates to develop them, and I just need to help them advertise. (To be continued......)