Seeing that the Qingming Festival was coming soon, Tang Huan took advantage of today's Sunday's rest time to go to the cemetery alone to worship his grandfather, but he didn't expect to meet Deng Lijun on the way back.

Tang Huan bought a few different newspapers, and walked back to the place of the incident while flipping through them, his second-hand car was still honestly parked on the side of the road, Tang Huan did not rush to start after sitting on it, and continued to understand and confirm the characteristics of the current times through the newspaper.

When he inadvertently saw the promotional information of Apple Computer on the advertising page, Tang Huan's eyes lit up, this is a peer, just reminded him that the first pot of gold after rebirth may be able to use his brains on them, after all, he is familiar with his old profession.

At the end of the seventies, it was at the dawn of the development of microcomputers, and the IT bigwigs in the future were still moving forward in exploration at this time, Intel's main business was memory, not CPU; Microsoft is selling the Basic compiler everywhere; Oracle's predecessor, RSI, relied on flickering to survive; Among the exceptions, HP is still obsessed with minicomputers, and the blue giant IBM has no time to take care of the germination and development of the personal computer industry because of the anti-monopoly investigation, but the Apple computer that came into being stood out and became popular with Wall Street investors.

What was the concept of billions in the early eighties? Tang Huan thought of this, his spirits perked, if he couldn't even seize this opportunity, he would be reborn again.

Since the target of the first pot of gold has chosen Apple computers, the next step is to consider how to act.

Looking at the advertisement's boast of how powerful the Apple computer is, Tang Huan smiled disdainfully, no wonder now HP these small computer manufacturers look down on microcomputers, thinking that they are just weak toys, indeed, now users buy Apple computers back, mainly as calculators, you can also play games, not even an office software, it's just cold to the home, of course, this also means that there is a huge market demand hidden in it.

Since the current use of personal computers is still so lackluster, it is up to you to push the door to another new world, and the first king-level application that Tang Huan chose to develop is naturally spreadsheet software that is almost everywhere.

In fact, VisicalC, the world's first spreadsheet software, was launched in 1979 by Harvard's Dan Blicklin and Bob Frankston, with an initial price of $100, and in the six years since, VisicalC has sold more than 700,000 copies.

Thinking of possible potential competitors, Tang Huan couldn't read the newspaper anymore, the gimmick of the world's first spreadsheet software, the title of the father of spreadsheets, and the tens of millions of dollars in sales, absolutely could not be spent on his family.

Tang turned on his car and headed straight for the university, where he could find Apple computers as his software development platform.

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The University of California, Berkeley is located northeast of San Francisco, on a hill in the city of Berkeley.

More than 80 towering and elegant buildings are scattered among the landscape, including the 307-foot-tall Sussertower, which is the school's landmark. Standing on the tower, you can see the rainbow-shaped Golden Gate Bridge and the downtown San Francisco across the water.

Tang Huan didn't bother to enjoy the scenery along the way, parked the car and went straight to the engineering college, where the most common microcomputer, the Apple computer, could be easily found.

Because he felt that he had wasted too much time absorbing modern scientific knowledge in the past, Tang Huan not only studied mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences according to his personal interests, but also took economics, electrical engineering, and computer science as electives. Recently, Tang Huan has mainly been working in the School of Engineering, and he has a good relationship with Cai Shaotang, a Chinese professor there, and happened to ask him for help.

Don't look at today is Sunday, Cai Shaotang is still working, this is his normal, because university professors in the United States, in addition to their usual teaching, also have scientific research tasks, and as a minority Chinese, if they don't work hard, they don't even have a chance to get ahead.

Tang Huan soon found Cai Shaotang and explained his intention.

For Tang Huan, who was also diligent and motivated, Cai Shaotang was deeply impressed, appreciated it very much, and happily agreed to his request.

Cai Shaotang has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley since 1971. Looking at the appearance of this middle-aged Chinese, Tang Huan had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and suddenly remembered that this is not an idle person, the theories of memristors, Cai's circuits and cell-like neural networks are proposed by him, and he is even known as the father of nonlinear circuit analysis theory, because of the successful prediction of memristors, Cai Shaotang is expected to win the Nobel Prize in the future.

Such a cow may only be well-known in the academic world, and the general public does not know much about it, but when it comes to Cai Shaotang's eldest daughter, Tiger Mother Cai Meier, people will have the impression that the publication of the book "Tiger Mother Battle Song" has detonated the world's great discussion on Eastern and Western education methods.

I have to say that this is really an era of showing off your talents, with cattle everywhere and a lot of opportunities.

After Tang Huan sighed, he hurriedly entered the work state, he had a sense of urgency in his heart, after all, he only knew that the spreadsheet software would be popular by relying on foresight, and the original first developer relied on real skills to discover the market demand, and he didn't know how the other party's progress was now, so he couldn't be careless, it can be said that "time is money" is the most appropriate portrayal of the current situation.

At present, the microcomputers on the market provide ordinary users with an operating interface of a variety of disk operating systems, that is, DOS, while the development interface provided to professionals is assembly language, and Apple computers are no exception.

However, unlike the generally recognized personal computers, Apple computers at this time did not use Intel x86 architecture CPUs, but another set of instruction system MOS6502, the reason why Watts chose this at the beginning was only because MOS6502 was the cheapest.

As a result, it brought some minor troubles to Tang Huan's program development, but that's all, thanks to the thriving open-source community in his previous life, plus the collection of so many elite memories, and his own talent, the difficulty of these problems is limited.

Tang Huan's title of madman is not exaggerated, he only sleeps three hours a day, and in the next four days, he writes thousands of lines of assembly code, completes the main function of the spreadsheet, and runs reliably, and can be directly used by ordinary users as a finished product.

Finally, I tested the spreadsheet software named CGRID, and Tang Huan was very satisfied with the completion time next to the version 1.0 record in the notebook, April 5, 1979, which coincided with the Qingming Festival, and the Chinese people wanted to worship their ancestors today. Tang Huan was suddenly a little dazed and confused, he really didn't know where his roots should belong.

However, Tang Huan quickly put away this emotion, since he has been reborn, it is necessary to seize the moment, quickly contact Apple, and let his cgrid log in to their computer sales platform as soon as possible to make a lot of dollars.

At present, Apple's power structure should be, with Marcoura as the chairman of the board, Watts as the technical director, Jobs as the vice president, and Scott as the president. From this point of view, the target that needs to be dealt with is undoubtedly the leader of Qiao's gang, thinking about the various rumors about this person's strange temper when he was young, Tang Huan subconsciously scratched his head.

If you want to talk to Jobs about business, you must make an appointment, Tang Tan dialed the Apple contact number recorded in the notebook, and replied politely, Jobs has been busy with financing matters recently, and rarely appears in the office, so he can't arrange a definite meeting time, but there is an important interview tomorrow, maybe he will appear.

Tang Huan put down the phone and sighed regretfully, it seemed that it was not going well, but thinking about it, now Apple computers are the darlings of investors, and Jobs naturally has to socialize everywhere, but he can't wait, he will go to Apple tomorrow to have a look.

After thinking about it, Tang Huan put the messy items around the computer in order, got up and left the office. He hadn't seen his aunt Tang Yun for several days, and if he didn't want to be complained, he had to hurry home.

Thinking that he was going to face this only relative, Tang Huan was a little nervous, but it was better to break through this hurdle sooner rather than later. But in fact, he was a little worried, because he had just worshiped his relatives today, Tang Yun's mood was a little low, and he didn't pay attention to the difference between Tang Huan and before, and he thought that his behavior of not showing up in the past few days was to avoid the contradictions within the family, and he felt even more guilty.

&Huan, how did you choose a graduate major? Tang Yun asked with concern.

Tang Huan's mind turned around, he was so worried about how to pan for gold, he forgot about continuing his studies.

& Mom, I'm in my twenties, and it's not the same thing to rely on your help all the time, and I heard that the restaurant business is not good now, anyway, now that I've adapted to life here, it's better for me to find a job, and it's too late to study for a master's degree and doctorate. ”

&Huan, don't worry about the economy, I can turn around. You always worry about money, but you don't treat your aunt as a relative. Your father and I are now left with our mother and mother to depend on each other, you spend my natural righteousness, and I will still count on you to retire in the future. ”

Seeing Tang Huan scratching his head and about to speak, Tang Yun waved his hand and continued: "Your father and I studied here when we were young, and the whole family has been immigrating here for more than ten years, so it can be said that we know the rules of American society very well. If we Chinese want to get ahead, getting a doctorate is the safest way, and Berkeley doesn't have a lot of outstanding Chinese. Besides, the current situation of economic stagflation, not to mention inflation, the unemployment rate has increased, where to find a suitable job, don't waste time, listen to your aunt, and choose a major for graduate school with peace of mind. ”

Tang Yun is a heroine, and her natural temper is also very stubborn, Tang Huan is not good at resisting and insisting on opposition, so he has to smile bitterly, Bill Gates has dropped out of school to start a company, why can't he do the same.

Although there are many opportunities in this era, once the opportunity is missed, then many advantages are gone.

The life blueprint designed by my aunt may not be suitable for a reborn person like herself, so let's secretly follow the original plan, and find opportunities to communicate slowly with each other.

>> In the past few days, a Miss Deng who claims to be your friend has called twice, and I said that you are busy with your studies now, and you will not be free until the weekend, so you should hurry up and reply to others. ”

Tang Huan slapped his forehead, he has been busy developing programs in the past few days, but he forgot about Deng Lijun, not to mention snubbing the beauty, maybe it will lower the favorability that he has just established.

Seeing Tang Huan hurriedly going to make a phone call, and hinting at himself from time to time to avoid it, a rare look of cowardice, Tang Yun laughed for a while, shook his head and made way of space.