Looking at Don? The back of Estlic, an opponent with a western cowboy personal style, Tang Huan smiled and waved his hand.

UP TO NOW, COMDEX HAS BEEN ALMOST BUSY WITH THE AFFAIRS OF COMDEX, AND THEN WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW UP ON THE COOPERATION WITH SEAGATE. Shugart has already agreed to visit the company.

According to Tang Huan's vision, the first two external partners with their own technology will be selected, Seagate, which produces hard disks, and 3COM, which provides LAN technology.

Their products will be connected to the second-generation Fangyuan computer system through the expansion slot, on the one hand, they can set a model for hardware partners, and on the other hand, in case of technical and product problems, they can be easily replaced and will not be rigidly bound together.

Of course, this is just for the sake of insurance, in the original time and space, there were basically no major problems with the industrial direction of Seagate and 3COM, but now no one knows the words, and they just take advantage of the loopholes to establish a marriage relationship with them.

Tang Huan was pondering, and suddenly a fragrant wind hit, and when he opened his eyes, it turned out to be Madonna, whose music career had recently entered a significant upward channel, and stepped forward gracefully.

I have to say that with Tang Huan's secret funding, Madonna's ability to move alone is getting stronger and stronger.

Due to her close relationship with the Overlord game console, she had an awkward fall out with Warner Bros. Records, so she went to Sire, another record company that Warner Group had just acquired, signed a single contract, and released her first single "Everybody", which quickly became a dance hit, which officially laid the foundation of the music scene.

Next. Madonna's goal. Naturally, it's out of the record.

"Don. Will you be on stage? Madonna sat opposite Tang Huan and asked with a smile.

"I should go, and I'm just taking this opportunity to relax." Tang Huan nodded.

"That's right, and I can help." Madonna's feet pulled out of her high heels and gently rubbed Tang Huan's calves under the table.

Tang Huan smiled slightly, "I heard that the recent career development is good, congratulations." ”

"It's not your promotion, you gave me 'Everybody'." Madonna is a person who drinks water and does not forget to dig wells.

"That's nothing. The main reason is that you have put a lot of hard work into arranging music and become famous in one fell swoop, which is reasonable. Tang Huan waved his hand, "And I don't have any connections in the American record industry, so even if I want to help, I can't help." ”

"You're already helping, through consoles, and platforms like the Oakland Raiders football team. I've amassed enough popularity that the record company wouldn't have looked up to me. "Madonna, who is very smart. The more Tang Huan cleared up, the more she pasted up.

I have to say that even Tang Huan is not exempt from vulgarity, he was in a happy mood when he was complimented by Madonna, and a smile appeared in his eyes, "It's still because you are angry." I remember I said a long time ago, your achievements are limitless, keep working hard, I see people with the same precision as the sunshine of doing business. ”

Madonna, who was discharging all kinds of electricity, finally had a serious look on her face after listening to Tang Huan's encouragement, and said seriously: "My confidence comes from your weight. ”

At this time, Adelson came to congratulate Tang Huan on his success again at this year's COMDEX, and Madonna obediently got up and said goodbye.

"I'm planning to hold COMDEX twice a year starting next year, and the venue for the spring exhibition in the first half of the year will be tentatively set in New York, what do you think of this plan?" Adelson was quick to talk about the purpose of the trip.

"It sounds like a good idea, so it can be more accessible to European companies across the Atlantic." Tang Huan nodded, "However, it's really hard to predict what the specific situation is, so I can only test it." ”

"So, I need heavyweight exhibitors to cheer on and increase the gold content of the spring exhibition." Adelson laughed, his face full of hope, "Brother, your fame and the company under your umbrella are heavyweights." ”

"No problem, I will ask my subordinates to prepare carefully so that they can participate in next year's COMDEX spring exhibition." Tang Huan didn't hesitate at all, and agreed in one bite.

From now on, a large number of new technologies, new products, and new applications will emerge in the entire IT industry, so even if the exhibition is held more intensively, Tang Huan is confident that the company under his name will not run out of talent.

Adelson didn't know what Tang Huan was counting in his heart, he just thought that the other party was giving him face, which moved him badly, and repeated "enough to be interesting" a few times before continuing to lobby other related households.

Taking advantage of this gap, Tang Huan took a break, and then ran to EA's performance stage to have fun with the people. Jackson danced for a while, which was really a great joy in life.

After Tang Huan personally gave a few Xiaobawang palm treasures to EA's die-hard fans, he completed his task in this interactive event.

After a night's rest in Las Vegas, Tang Huan returned to Cupertino, Silicon Valley, the next day.

Of course, Madonna will not let go of any opportunity to serve Tang Huan, the backer.

If it weren't for the fact that this powerful young man had already made a clear statement about the relationship between the two, Madonna would naturally be willing to go further, this is a billionaire.

But she knows the severity and is too greedy, but it will backfire and destroy the current harmonious situation, you must know that the career support she got from Tang Huan is strong enough.

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Alan? Eager to find a partnership, Shugart soon led four other Seagate co-founders: Tom Mitchell, Doug Mahon, FinisConner and Syed Iftikar, from Scotts Valley to Cupertino.

When greeting these people, Tang Huan couldn't help but secretly sigh that in the original time and space, in a few years, this small team would fall apart, and FinisConner and SyedIftikar would leave separately. Each of them established a company that produced hard disks. In particular, ConnerPeripherals, which was founded by FinisConner, is Connaught. Technically, we are catching up with Seagate, and the competition is fierce, which has virtually greatly promoted the development of the hard disk industry, and this rival relationship did not come to an end until the merger of the last two companies in 1996.

After visiting the company and letting these people in front of him know his strength, Tang Huan turned the topic to the in-depth cooperation between the two sides, and he wanted to invest in Seagate. And long ago to Alain? Shugart mentioned that since they came so quickly, he shouldn't be too resistant.

In fact, although Seagate launched a new product ST-506 - the world's first 5.25-inch hard drive, the market position is still relatively awkward, the reason is simple, storage device products have their own particularities, that is, the data stored in them is often more valuable than the hardware itself.

Just from the perspective of the individual customer, imagine if the whole 1000G carefully collected video. How would he react one day when he couldn't access it because of a problem with the quality of his hard drive.

This is especially true for business users. Employee information, salary data...... Either way, users are more concerned about the reliability of the product, not just about how much capacity it has.

Compared with various minicomputers, the personal computer that has gradually grown up has a better chance of embracing Seagate and its new products.

In short, Seagate needs people's trust in him, and Seagate, which has only been established for more than a year and is in the early stage of entrepreneurship, just can't easily gain this recognition, and now, Tang Huan and the second-generation Fangyuan computer have given them a chance.

It is precisely because of this situation that Tang Huan finally got 20% of Seagate's shares as he wished, and the marriage was successful.

It can be said that with a reliable hard disk, Tang Huan's database products are even more powerful, and also lay the foundation for the next graphics and image processing, as well as software with a wider range of applications such as CAD.

Looking at the faint smile on Tang Huan's face, Alain? Shugart felt a little uncomfortable, everyone was a company founded last year, but now, the gap between them is too incredible.

However, Alain, who experienced an unsatisfactory company earlier? Shugart quickly drove away this negative emotion in his heart, a collaborator like Tang Huan who can bring great development opportunities to Seagate is really rare, in comparison, those troublesome face problems are not worth mentioning.

Next, the two sides reached an agreement to set up a joint technical team to be responsible for the research and development of hard disk expansion cards on the second-generation Fangyuan computer platform.

The IDE interface in the original space-time does not have the conditions to appear at this time, and the combination of open slot and expansion card is the most suitable solution.

Another goal is to further improve the reliability of data storage through the combination of software and hardware.

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After sending off Seagate and his party, Tang Huan went to join in the excitement and went to the filming set of "Love Killing" for a spin.

Tan Jiaming, who didn't long after directing the first movie "Famous Sword", deliberately went to the United States to shoot in order to invite Lin Qingbian to appear in the movie, which can be described as full of sincerity.

Tam Ka-ming is recognized as a leading figure in New Wave films, and the film directed in 1982 in the original time and space, "Youth on Fire" starring Leslie Cheung, Tang Zhenye, Xia Wenxi, and Ye Tong, is regarded as a representative work of the New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, and it has caused the most controversy.

In fact, Tang Huan's purpose here is mainly to see what Lin Qingbian's efforts in transformation have been.

He remembered that "Love Kills" was a thriller that imitated the style of French films, and he didn't know what kind of room Lin Qingbian would have.

However, after watching it for a while, Tang Huan scratched his head a little, it was worthy of a film of the New Wave period, full of attempts to explore, and he didn't understand what kind of story synopsis it was except for seeing the big art shots.

After inquiry, Tang Huan learned that Lin Qingbian played a female college student named Ivy in the movie, and her roommate's brother Fu Zhuzhong came to the United States to deal with affairs and fell madly in love with Ivy.

Fu Zhuzhong is married and has a history of mental illness. He is paranoid that Ivy refuses to agree to his love because he has a wife, so he promises Ivy that he will remove all obstacles between them.

After returning to Hong Kong from the United States, Fu Zhuzhong relapsed into psychosis and killed his wife. Absconded to the United States to meet Ivy.

In fact. Fu Zhuzhong is just wishful thinking. Ivy didn't like him at all.

After failing to woo again and again, Fu Zhuzhong was extremely angry, thinking that Ivy had cheated on him and ruined himself, and gradually became resentful, killing everyone in this dormitory.

The corners of Tang Huan's mouth curled, and his heart said that it was really terrifying, from beginning to end. Kill all sides.

Lin Qingbian withdrew the script in Tang Huan's hand, and warned coquettishly: "When you come to visit the class, you will honestly and low-key watch the excitement, and you are not allowed to offend people by talking and expressing opinions indiscriminately." ”

"Don't worry, you didn't see it, I only came with a pair of ears." Tang Huan smiled dumbly.

"So what is this?" Lin Qingbian pinched Tang Huan's nose and asked with a smile.

At this time, the drama affairs came to inform the next set of shots to start filming, and Lin Qingbian quickly let go.

With Tang Huan's current style, he can't get his wish if he wants to be low-key. can behave intimately with a big star like Lin Qingfang, will it be an ordinary man?

Let alone. Tang Huan also feasted the entire crew proudly, and Tan Jiaming soon knew that this young rich man was the boss of DreamWorks.

I have to say that TVB has cultivated a large number of artistic talents for Xiangjiang, and Tan Jiaming is from such a background. He first started as a scene manager, then served as a location director, and then as a choreographer, and was appreciated by Gan Guoliang, who was the manager of TVB's program department at the time.

Tan Jiaming's work "The Spectrum of Stars" during this period won the third place at the New York Television Festival, which was the first time that Heung Kong TV won an international competition award.

After leaving TVB and working at Jiayi TV for a period of time, Tan Jiaming entered the film industry and filmed "Famous Sword", which became a landmark event for New Wave films.

While talking with Tan Jiaming, Tang Huan also discovered another famous figure in the original time and space many years later, art director Zhang Shuping, of course, he is still a fledgling and has no name.

is such an alternative movie, but it brings together a lot of talents, and Tang Huan is secretly surprised.

Everyone said at the dinner table, Tan Jiaming bluntly said that the movie "Love Killing" took the experimental route, and he learned from the French director Luc? Godard borrowed a lot from there.

Hearing these words, Tang Huan's heart suddenly moved, and he made a suggestion, "After returning to Xiangjiang, you might as well ask the investor if you are willing to sell the European license to DreamWorks, I have some connections in France, maybe I will find an opportunity to release it, if it happens, it will be a beautiful thing." ”

In this regard, Tan Jiaming naturally agreed, while the others glanced at Lin Qingfang, who didn't speak much, from time to time, and said in their hearts that Tang Huan was so enthusiastic, it must be for her face.

After a while, everyone shifted the topic to the 17th Golden Horse Awards held in Treasure Island earlier this month.

Baodao films still have the upper hand, and "Good Morning Tai_North" directed by Li Xing beat strong films such as "Strange Tales of the Six Dynasties", "Yuan", "Crazy Robbery", "Countryman", "Jasmine" and other strong films to become the best film, but other important awards were not awarded, and even the director award was not shortlisted.

This best film has caused controversy, and the Xiangjiang film industry, which is not a taste in its heart, can be said to be interested in this, and gradually complained, complaining about the high and low number of Golden Horse Awards, emphasizing art over the box office, and even secretly brewing a boycott.

After listening to everyone's discussions, Tang Huan smiled and said nothing.

In the original time and space, in 1981, the mainland established the Golden Rooster Award in order to encourage films, which invisibly increased the urgency of the independent brand of the Xiangjiang film industry. So, in 1982, the Hong Kong Film Awards were officially born, and the Golden Horse Awards on Treasure Island could no longer dominate.

These Xiangjiang film personalities are quite the same enemy, and they also talked about some of the cold performances of this year's Golden Horse Awards, such as the last Best Actress, who did not show up at all, although Lin Qingfang was on the spot, but she was nominated for "Blue Blood and Yellow Flowers" and did not return to Treasure Island.

However, the 13th Best Actress Xu Feng defeated Lin Qingbian and Zhang Aijia with "Yuan", and won the second film queen after Li Lihua, Gui Yalei, and Lu Yan, which is really amazing.

But Xu Feng has married into a wealthy family, and it is estimated that he will not have anything to do with movies in the future.

Hearing this, Tang Huan couldn't help but roll his eyes, it's inconvenient for people to star in movies, but they can invest in movies, and they have made great achievements, the original time and space in 1990's "Rolling Red Dust" and 1992's "Farewell My Concubine" are the best proof.

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After helping Lin Qingfang support the scene, Tang Huan returned to Cupertino in Silicon Valley.

Accompanied by Simeone, Robert Melancton, the founder of 3COM, is Robert MelanctonMetcalf, or Robert Metcalf? Metcalfe, from Marlborough, Massachusetts, on the East Coast, came to California on the West Coast.

These two people were colleagues of PARC, and in the original time and space, it was in Robert? At Metcalfe's suggestion, Simeone went to Microsoft and was responsible for the development of office software, which shows the relationship between them, and Tang Huan also used this kind of network resources.

Back in the time of PARC, Robert? Metcalfe invented Ethernet, and then left PARC in 1979 to found 3Com, a company whose name is derived from Computer, Communication and Compatibility, which is the key to Ethernet.

However, 3Com's situation is similar to Seagate, and it also has to face technical competition from the omnipotent IBM, and at the same time, in the computer academic community, it is not optimistic about Ethernet, you know, there are several other implementations in the local area network, such as the token network, which is very popular, and IBM also supports it. (To be continued......)