All kinds of mutual temptation and bargaining are the most boring.

It is nothing more than that Reijiro Hattori wants to improve his status within the family by promoting the development of the main business of Seiko Group, and the batch of natural gems controlled by Tang Huan's Shennong Fund will have to be sold sooner or later, and what needs to be considered is nothing more than how to maximize fame and fortune, and it is okay to tilt it in Japan, anyway, they are not short of money now.

In fact, the result of mutual compromise between the two sides. It's a win-win, and it can't be measured simply by paper figures.

After the Hattori family took a back seat in Epson, they could still enjoy the rewards of the company's rapid development, while Tang Huan quietly obtained the most important precision machining technology.

The value of this kind of technological heritage accumulated in Japan over the decades cannot be fully assessed by Reijiro Hattori, who is obsessed with staring at the position of the patriarch.

His proposal to cooperate was not much resistance within the family, and Epson's management was looking forward to throwing himself into Tang Huan's arms as soon as possible, and the entire power transfer process was completed at an astonishing speed, and Yasukawa Hideaki was directly promoted to president, and the news of seeking to go public was released.

All in all, the entire Epson greeted Tang Huan peacefully as a new owner, with a slight exception, the watch department was a little worried about its future.

Tang Huan also scratched his head a little, Epson's watch business is the foundation of the company's start, and it is currently mainly sold through Seiko's channels, which is operating quite well, but it is a little far from Tang Huan's IT positioning, but he is reluctant to separate this department from Seiko Group.

After much deliberation, Tang Huan decided. It's better to maintain the current structure. So specifically appeased this department. And promised that the relevant investment will never be overlooked.

Epson's headquarters is located in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture. It's not a modern metropolis in the ordinary sense, but Tang Huan didn't bother to change it, anyway, in the original time and space, it had been staying in this secluded place and had not caused any inconvenience.

After holding power, Tang Huan finally got his wish and gave the instruction to develop inkjet printers, and he must not let HP specialize in the past, and the dot matrix printer continued the 24-needle project. It is also necessary to deal with the catch-up of other competitors.

Judging from the current market research, in 1981, that is, this year, Epson will maintain the dominant position in the dot matrix printer market, but next year, it is difficult to say, Japan's technological advantages are overall, Epson made money from personal computer printers, and other companies will naturally follow suit.

These unavoidable competitions, after Tang Huan gave his subordinates a clear understanding. He didn't bother anymore, but asked Yasukawa Hideaki to form a team. It was immediately dispatched to the special zone on the mainland to inspect the construction of the factory.

After eagerly putting the flattered employees on a plane to the mainland in Tokyo, Tang Huan and Son met up in Taidong.

This old man's entrepreneurial journey in Japan is much smoother than in the original time and space, with the popularity of Xiaobawang game consoles and Fangyuan computers in Japan, his computer magazine has too much content to publish, and it can also do the most important point - down-to-earth.

Because the game is updated at the fastest speed, Son will naturally pay more attention to the dynamics of EA Japan and Taidong, and after hearing that Taidong, whose business has been adjusted, is finally going to relaunch the arcade, he came over to see it with Tang Huan.

Zheru encountered some problems on the road of using MC68000 to develop the second generation of game consoles, mainly manifested in the poor heat dissipation effect in the narrow space of the home game console main chassis.

In this regard, Tang Huan does not have a cheap and feasible solution, the current level of semiconductor technology is like this, he cannot be like Jobs did with Apple III, rudely ignoring objective facts.

Fortunately, for arcade applications, these limitations are not so obvious, and not only can the performance of the MC68000 be fully utilized, but the display and sound modules newly developed by Zheru can be fully equipped.

Naturally, the price of the Xiaobawang arcade machine is inevitably slightly higher than similar products on the market.

A Japanese company like Nintendo, whose products that are very popular in the market, such as the red and white machines of the original time and space, are not very advanced in technology, and its success lies in finding a balance between technology, cost and other factors, otherwise there would not be so many imitators, and it would be easy to copycat.

In comparison, Xiaobawang arcade seems to be in danger of being high and low, but Tang Huan has enough reason to believe that as long as "content is king", this product will occupy a place in the market.

Because EA and Taidong have a wealth of classic game resources in their hands, and judging from the current porting effect, the operation, visual and sound experience provided by Xiaobawang Arcade is very perfect, which can definitely make players feel fresh.

Most importantly, in addition to the new bottles of old wine, EA has launched a new arcade game "Thunderbolt", and while the peers are still figuring out the side-scrolling mode of Donkey Kong and Mario, the vertical scrolling shooting genre has appeared, which can be said to play the "content is king" point to the fullest.

Although Taidong's technicians are still optimizing and adjusting the handling, Son Masayoshi can already personally experience the charm of "Thunderbolt", and the shocking sound effects have stimulated the connoisseur's red face and chanted continuously.

"This groundbreaking game alone is more than enough to make up for the disadvantage of the high price tag." Son Masayoshi finally gave his own evaluation, "It's just that companies like Nintendo, Sega, and Namco are going to complain." ”

Tang Huan laughed, muttered in his heart, "I care about their life and death", and said: "The smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, and Xiaobawang Arcade still needs your professional magazine to cheer." ”

"Naturally, it's not a problem." Son smiled understandingly.

……

Sharp knew about Tang Huan's trip to Japan, so he invited him to visit, but Tang Huan saw that the time was already mid-January, so he politely declined and stayed for the next time.

You know, the PC market and video game console market in the U.S. are bustling.

The media in the United States dubbed the Fangyuan computer and the Xiaobawang game console as two delicious desserts, while the slanderous IBM and Universal. I'm trying to figure out how to bite hard.

The reaction of Fangyuan Computer and EA to this. It can be summed up as grievance and anger. It has won widespread sympathy from the outside world, while the industry has stood on the sidelines.

The PC industry is generally wary of IBM, and not long after the blue giant announced that it would launch a new generation of personal computers, it acquired 20% of Intel's shares.

Recently, Seymour? Rubinstein also released rumors that IBM wanted to buy his own MicroPro International, the purpose of which was to firmly control the word processing software WordStar, but he finally rejected it with righteousness.

All signs seem to indicate it. Big Blue has the intention of exhausting many of today's personal computer manufacturers.

IBM's monopoly on the mainframe era has established a prestige name, and outsiders who see the excitement are admired and yearned, while those who have stakeholders are spurned and rejected.

This is the big move of the Blue Giant Tree, and Tang Huan's investment in Seagate and 3COM has not been paid attention to.

And it seems that the popularity seems to be good, everyone hopes that Fangyuan Computer can chop off the greedy hand stretched out by IBM.

Of course, this is all illusory support, and once a patent lawsuit starts, it will burn money. You have to pay for it yourself, don't expect others to help.

Of course. Now Tang Huan can afford to play this game. He saw very clearly that this patent lawsuit was just a foreshadowing of the personal computer standards war represented by bus technology.

As for the video game space, EA is in a much more isolated position.

Atari, for example, condescendingly stated that in a high-tech industry like ours, it should be a natural instinct to respect patents.

The implication is that EA you should quickly admit that your "Donkey Kong" infringes on other people's copyrights.

Intellivision has a very surprised expression, there is such a thing, then come and buy my products, our game consoles and games are absolutely original.

As for Mirova, who was the first inventor of the home video game console, due to the unsatisfactory performance of his Odyssey second-generation game console and the failure of the patent lawsuit, he was stimulated by three latecomers who made a lot of money to become cynical - haha, EA, you also have today.

All in all, the video game peers can't wait for EA, which is now dominating the market, to die quickly.

This can only be said in one sentence, EA is also a big hit.

At the meeting, Tang Huan did not hesitate to praise his subordinates for their ability to handle the crisis properly when he was willing to let go.

"Everyone, development and growth is the last word, as for those guys who are jealous of our benefits......" Tang Huan snorted disdainfully, "You come to bite me!" ”

The absolute self-confidence displayed by the big boss made the audience laugh heartily.

"IBM's personal computers will take at least two months to be launched, and the second-generation Fangyuan computers have mature and reliable production capacity, and are gradually open to sale to personal and business users, so they are in a hurry to fight lawsuits and say that their computers will be cheaper, in order to delay our progress." Tang Huan's eyes were blazing and analyzing.

The reason why he is so sure is that there are multiple sources from within Microsoft that the DOS that IBM needs is still in full swing, and Gates, Allen, and Ballmer are all driving them crazy.

"Although we strive to make Fangyuan computers like home appliances, enter the traditional store, in fact, it is the business users who can really drive the PC market forward," Tang Huan continued to elaborate on his point.

Of course, this conclusion is also based on the success of the early days of IBM's personal computer in the original time and space.

"Therefore, I hope that when you lay out the market, you will focus on cultivating successful application models in various industries, so as to drive the needs of other users." Tang Huan's eyes swept over everyone, "The luxury hotels in Las Vegas, the insurance giant Pan Am in San Francisco, the universities on the West Coast, and the universities in the United Kingdom, and many more are all our achievements at the moment. It is not difficult to see that the customer is still very recognized by customers to use supporting software to make up for the disadvantage of the high price of second-generation Fangyuan computer hardware. ”

Under Tang Huan's detailed explanation, everyone present who understood it became more and more clear about the next work. As for the harassment of IBM and Universal. It really gives them a feeling. You're going to bite me.

Towards the end of the meeting, Chambers told Tang Huan that Robert? Metcalfe passed on an intention that since he had not been able to meet with Tang Huan, the board of directors of 3COM planned to come to Silicon Valley en masse.

"I'm slacking off." Tang Huan self-examined, "Don't let them work hard, I'm going to Washington to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new president, so let's go to the 3COM headquarters first." ”

"That's good. I'll get back to them. Chambers nodded.

After the meeting, Tang Huan hurriedly went to the R&D department to visit Woz, this guy was fooled by him, and ran over from Apple to get a barcode reader and a radio frequency card reader, which was simply out of business to the extreme.

Woz's genius lies in the fact that he can use as few electronic components as possible to achieve the required functions and have extremely high execution efficiency, as is the case with the floppy disk drive on the Apple II.

Once Woz's interest in hacking is piqued, he bursts into amazing creativity. The barcode reader has been done by it and is currently in the process of publicizing the RF card reader.

"Don. If banks adopt these cards in the future, won't we have to look at those accounts? Wadsz laughed happily.

Tang Huan was no stranger to this old man's whimsy, in his early years, he dared to use the blue box he invented to steal long-distance calls to call the Pope, although he was seen through the trick and did not succeed, but it also shows how whimsical and bold he is.

The two were chatting passionately when Woz's assistant hurried over and reported that Marcura, Jobs, and Scott had asked him to go to the boardroom.

"What is it that has to come to me? I'm rarely involved in board affairs anymore. Woz, who was discouraged, asked impatiently.

"I heard that it was the inside of the MAC project team that had a complete falling out, Jobs and Jeff? The contradictions between Ruskin have reached the point where they must have a face-to-face showdown, and only one of the two can be saved. The other party explained.

The internal chaos of Apple can be reflected from the complex relationship between the various project teams, and the AppleII project team, which provides the company's main source of profit, is regarded as outdated because of the long production cycle of the product, and is regarded as the technology cannot keep up with the situation.

"Steve went a little too far, it's a real nuisance." Woz sighed and took the initiative to talk to Tang Huan about it,

It turned out that since the MAC project team was targeted by Jobs, the person in charge, Jeff? Ruskin's good days are over, his power is hollowed out, his prestige is also hit, and he has simply become the tragic figure of the year.

Once, Jobs told Jeff? Ruskin, the next day's technical specification conference was cancelled, but this notice was only Jeff? Ruskin received it alone, and the rest did not receive such messages.

The next day, Jeff? Ruskin passed by the venue and was surprised at how there could be so many people, and he was unprepared, and he was forced to give a speech, making a mess of shame and laughter.

Since then, Jeff? The knot between Ruskin and Jobs will never be untied, and it is estimated that today's board of directors will make the final result of the two staying.

"I can guess from their previous rhetoric that Marcilla and Scott would have thought that Steve, who had nothing to do, was more of a problem for the whole company, and sacrificed Jeff as compensation for driving him out of the Lisa project team before? Ruskin, let that MAC project team, involve Steve's energy. Woz shrugged helplessly, with a look of this kind of political struggle within the company, and he now understood a look or two.

Tang Huan, who was personally testing the performance of the card reader, smiled noncommittally, he didn't want to mess with Apple's internal bad things, and it was thankless.

"Don, come with me, you haven't seen them for a while anyway." Woz, who was a little depressed by the assistant's urging, wanted to pull Tang Huan as his companion.

Tang Huan looked at the card reader, then at Wads, and said in his heart that the sample developed by this guy was better, so he rushed to this reason, and he had to accompany him, otherwise what if people were unhappy, what would they do.

……

After coming to Apple's office, Tang Huan obviously felt the solemnity of the atmosphere, and even Macura, Scott and his greetings were listless.

"Steve, aren't you really going to try to live with Jeff again?" Macura was making a final persuasion.

"The question is, is it Jeff? Ruskin himself proposed, the MAC project team, with me without him, with him without me. Jobs snorted.

"Then let Jeff? Ruskin goes on vacation. Scott sighed and offered to suggest.

Last time he agreed to expel Jobs from the Lisa team, now it's time to ease the relationship, Jeff? Ruskin was inevitably sacrificed.

"That's fine, this decision will be made by a few of us, don't alarm the others, otherwise, it will be another trouble." Makula had a headache and just hoped that from now on, Jobs would stop.

"Vacation?" The corners of Tang Huan's mouth curled slightly, and he said in his heart that this is really a general killing trick for ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries, and a glass of wine to release military power.

Jobs, who got what he wanted, raised his chin slightly, and his eyes fell on Tang Huan's body, "Since Tang is also here, you might as well talk about that proposal." (To be continued......)