Adelson spared no effort to build hype, and it paid off on the opening day of COMDEX. All kinds of non-experts poured into the museum like a tide, watching the most advanced computer products of the moment with great interest.

With the largest booth, Zheru has become the most eye-catching company, and its location has been fully exploited, and almost every passerby will stop and take a look.

Of course, the booth layout of Zheru is also very distinctive.

Every once in a while, the company's voice LOGO - dangdangdang, will sound, which will make a very deep impression.

The entire exhibition area is divided into two parts: the business office product area and the electronic entertainment product area.

In the business office area, dozens of brand-new Apple second-generation computers are neatly arranged, with the eye-catching "ZeroneInside" logo on them, running three major office software: database EBase, spreadsheet CGrid, word processing WordEasy and MA macro assembly and development software.

This kind of display is not a dry place, but a variety of specific service plans to vividly illustrate what Zheru's products can do for users.

For example, finance, warehouse, sales, statistical reports, format documents, etc., and the most notable example is the full set of solutions provided for the information processing of COMDEX.

Viewers can operate these programs on their own computers and even output the results through a printer.

Those who are interested in the industry, who get the opportunity to sit in front of the computer, will carefully experience the function, and the rest will not waste time, looking at the materials while asking for the details of the purchase.

Compared with the crowds and rational order in the business office area, the atmosphere in the electronic entertainment area can only be described as hot.

People lined up in long lines, watching the lucky ones in front of them happily play Tetris on the Overlord console while helping to calculate the trial time. If someone runs out of time and refuses to let go, there will be a boo.

What makes the audience even more eye-catching is that young stars such as Brooke Smalls, Jodie Foster, Michael Jackson and so on will take the stage from time to time, which will cause a sensation, so several reporters simply squatted here.

In addition to some of Zheru's employees, there were also many trained college students who provided consulting services in the booth area, and they had a good chance of working in Zheru, a budding company in Silicon Valley, so they were very serious.

The staff in charge of counting orders was busy sweating profusely and even a little embarrassed, but they couldn't hide the excitement on their faces.

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According to Tang Huan's suggestion, Adelson deliberately set up a large conference room, convened people in the industry to sit together, expressed their opinions on technology dynamics, market trends, etc., and then invited some well-known people to give speeches, which is basically similar to those economic forums and technology forums in the previous life that were about to rot on the street.

As an emerging industry, personal computers are naturally a hot topic of discussion with the audience, and the representatives of Tang Huan, Jobs, and Gates will be arranged by COMDEX to give speeches on the stage in turn.

But this kind of activity also needs to pay attention to seniority, not to mention that IBM is very face-saving, although the chairman of the board of directors and CEO Frank Carey did not come, but the president John Ober was present, and of course he had to be the first to speak.

After that, John Young from Hewlett-Packard took the baton.

Hewlett-Packard's power structure has always been stable, with David Packard elected chairman and Bill Hewlett president in 1964, a position that lasted until 1977, when John Young took over as president and became CEO in 1978.

Although nearly 1,000 people gathered in the venue, they were silent, and everyone listened very carefully, which shows the importance of this event.

After Ken Olsen, the "father of minicomputers", came on the field, Tang Huan couldn't help but sit up straight, and said in his heart that he finally saw the head of DEC, the second largest giant in the global computer industry in the 80s.

Once a person is recorded in history, they tend to be conceptualized and cartoonized, and Olson apparently enjoys that treatment because he has a stubborn idea that "we have no reason to think that people will need home computers." ”

As early as 1977, Olson asserted that "the personal computer will be a commercial one."

But this year, under the leadership of Zheru and Apple, the personal computer industry has achieved brilliant market performance, and I don't know what kind of rebuttal he will make in the next speech.

Olsen, who is now in his 50s, is actually a very remarkable engineer, and he talks about technical topics, of course, around DEC's latest product, the VAX computer.

Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere in the room was too serious and dreary, the moderator asked Olson what he thought of the personal computer after he finished speaking, and the stubborn guy was as dismissive as ever, "cheap, short-lived, inaccurate machines." ”

Seeing that there was some commotion in the audience, the host hurriedly smiled and reassured, "The benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise, COMDEX held this event just to let everyone speak freely." Now that we're talking about personal computers, let's take a look at some of the best in the field. ”

Just when Tang Huan was tidying up his tie and preparing to appear on the stage with the host reading out his name, a moth appeared.

Jobs tugged at his sleeve and asked angrily, "Is it because you have a good relationship with Adelson that he let you speak first?" ”

"Is there anything wrong with this order?" After Tang Huan was stunned, he was very annoyed, "I informed you a long time ago, and you didn't remember to oppose it until now?" ”

"I always thought that I would be the first to speak, and I would have thought that the order on this notice would be the order of appearance." Jobs looked dumbfounded.

At this time, the host on the stage began to introduce, "Now I invite Tang Huan, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO of Zerone, to take the stage to express his views on the personal computer industry. ”

Tang Huan pushed Jobs away, stood up, and muttered faintly, "The matter has come to this, what else is there to say." ”

In the applause, Tang Huan was just about to take a step, but Jobs grabbed his tie very violently and shouted in a suppressed voice: "Let's adjust the order of the two of us, I will be the first to speak on behalf of the personal computer industry." ”

The whole event was followed by the media from start to finish, and this scene naturally fell to the camera.

When everyone in the venue saw this funny scene, they burst out laughing.

After the host was stunned for a moment, he hurriedly rounded the stage, "The three representatives we chose in the field of personal computers are Tang Huan of Zheru, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Coincidentally, they were both born in 1955. Such a creative and high-profile young man naturally behaves in an eclectic manner, let's see what Tang Huan and Steve Jobs are arguing about. ”

Tang Huan glared at the careless Jobs with a smile, thinking that if it wasn't in public, it would definitely let you see what kung fu is.

For the sake of an appearance order, such a big movement will definitely become the material that reporters like to see.

"It's okay if you want to be the first to speak, but remember to owe me a favor." Tang Huan shouted in a low voice.

"Shit humanity. Apple is now the leader of the personal computer industry, and as a representative, I am the first to appear. Jobs was unruly.

"Then you don't fart sooner." Tang Huan sneered, "Didn't you be pointed at a gun when you sold the blue box for free calls, in fact, fists can also make you memorable, believe it or not, I'll punch your nose now." ”

"Barbarian fellow, even if I owe you a favor, what's the big deal." Jobs retorted sharply and turned to the stage.

"It turned out that the two of them were discussing who would be the first to speak on stage, and it seemed that Tang Huan gave the opportunity to Jobs."

Seeing that this sudden farce finally came to an end, the host hurriedly introduced it again, "Okay, then now we have Steve Jobs, the founder and vice president of Apple, to appear." ”

The 24-year-old Jobs can be described as in his prime, with long hair, looking very flowing, and handsome.

Although Jobs is still a little out of the way, he was born to handle this kind of big scene.

After walking up to the stage as if no one was around, Jobs said unceremoniously: "What did the old man say just now is a personal computer?" Cheap, short-lived, inaccurate machines? Hehe, did you know that Apple is now selling more than 10,000 PCs a month? Are all those who buy PCs idiots? ”

It has to be said that Jobs's speeches have a distinctly personal character and are always able to deceive people unconsciously.

By constantly torturing his employees, his "twisting force field" has been trained to become more and more powerful.

For Jobs's speech, which was clearly different from the style of the previous ones, the audience responded with warm applause and whistles.

Apparently, Jobs has once again made a big impression on everyone about himself and Apple.

In terms of style, Tang Huan can't be as flamboyant as Jobs, after all, he is an Oriental, and if he does this, he will appear shallow and ignorant, what he wants to create is the image of a Confucian businessman.

Therefore, when Tang Huan came to power, he always behaved humble and confident.

At this time, Hu Yinmeng, who was assigned a reporter interview and simultaneous translation task, was in high spirits, took the microphone and began to introduce, "At this high-standard national computer conference, the bigwigs of IBM, HP, AND DEC have expressed their views on the industry. ”

Hu Yinmeng listened intently to Tang Huan's English speech, although he had already seen the draft, but there would always be some temporary changes in the off-script speech on the spot, and he couldn't be careless.

If you mess it up, it will be very effective to advertise in Asia.

Sure enough, Tang Huan had a different statement at the beginning of his speech.

"Mr. Olson is an admirable and great engineer who led the DEC team to launch a brilliant PDP miniform factor that has been a huge success in the market, and I greatly appreciate that."

After Tang Huan praised Olson's achievements without hesitation, he changed his words, "But if Mr. Olson is still biased against personal computers, then I can only say that DEC's success is directly proportional to IBM's failure in the minicomputer market, and DEC's failure is also directly proportional to the success of personal computers." ”

After the warm applause, Tang Huan continued: "My assertion is not exaggerated, there are currently three achievements to prove it. First, Zheru adopted the most advanced relational model and successfully developed the microcomputer database EBase. Second, we can already deal with the oriental characters represented by Chinese characters relatively perfectly. Third, in addition to commercial use, we have also made successful attempts at electronic entertainment. Next, I will elaborate on these three aspects. ”

inadvertently saw Tang Huan's calm demeanor on the stage, pointing out the country, Hu Yinmeng's heart suddenly jumped violently twice, and his hands and feet seemed to tremble.

She quickly took a few deep breaths, silently recited in her heart a few times, nothing remarkable, and then continued to translate simultaneously.

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