Seeing Tang Huan leave, Robert thought that he was defeated because of discouragement, so he smiled smugly, "According to the current sales momentum of AppleIII, in six months, Woz's AppleII can retire." ”

If Tang Huan heard this ignorant assertion, he would have to spit on the other party's face.

Don't look at Woz's Apple II original, but it was sold until the 1990s, and in the years before the MAC was successfully developed and brought to the market, Apple's main source of revenue was the Apple II, which is a veritable evergreen, and its ability to attract gold can be described as a trickle.

Robert's arrogance will undoubtedly deepen the contradictions between Woz's Apple II project team and other departments.

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Tang Huan, who was arrogant on the surface, left Apple while thinking about the causes of the current situation in his heart.

This should be the reason why he relied on cheating to get 7% of Apple's shares and squeeze into Apple's board of directors, and planted the seeds of dissatisfaction in the hearts of some shareholders who thought they had suffered losses, so they wanted to take this opportunity to plan to put him together.

Originally, with the rapid growth of Zheru, the actual value seems to exceed Apple's achievements, and these barriers will naturally disappear, but the changes in the times will always disturb the sensitive nerves of businessmen.

Zheru took out 20 percent of the shares in exchange, of which Marcola, Jobs, and Woz each accounted for 3 percent, and the remaining 11 percent fell into the name of Apple.

Looking at it now, Apple's three founders clearly benefited from the deal. And Apple's interests in Zheru were divided. Even the right to speak has been dispersed. If Apple currently has a complete 20% say in Zheru. What a wonderful thing that would be.

After the three founders of Apple let their personal benefits, they also formed a group with Tang Huan on Apple's side, so that others had no right to speak at all.

And the chaos and disorder that Apple has exposed has also caused some shareholders to worry and want to make changes, but only if they change Apple's existing power structure.

In such an intricate relationship, Tang Huan has undoubtedly become the best breakthrough.

Wait until you get back to Zheru. Tang Huan had already sorted out the problems, and he went directly to Apple's third-generation software development project team, which had been withdrawn from Apple a long time ago, and planned to learn about the situation from the technicians working on the front line.

As a result, he found that all the Apple third-generation machines used for debugging programs had been opened to expose the circuit boards inside to the air, and the scene was so messy.

"Aren't you afraid of electronic radiation, it's such an exaggeration, you know, you're developing software. It's not hardware. Tang Huan laughed and joked about these subordinates who had been thrown at Apple as outcasts to deal with the scene.

"We found that the heat dissipation of these computers was so poor that the program often crashed after more than half of the program was running. I had to do it as a last resort. These employees began to complain, and even worried, "Users will buy such a product?" I can't figure it out. ”

"That's Apple's business, we don't have to worry about it." Tang Huanyun replied calmly, and then asked, "What part of the project are you working on?" ”

"Now all that's left is the functional module that is compatible with Apple's second-generation data files." The person in charge brought the development log, "and then moved on to the next development cycle and added new features." ”

It seems that it is really a jade who can't be a machine without thinking about it, and people can't be talented if they don't torture, these people's work is progressing well, Tang Huan is a little different.

"You guys stop when you're done with your current work, and I'll make other arrangements." Tang Huan casually ordered, returned the development log to the other party, and inadvertently swept his eyes over the desk I don't know which employee bought the computer magazine, and its cover is Apple's third-generation machine.

His heart moved slightly, and he didn't know what the professional media said about AppleIII, so after asking who it was, he picked it up and looked at it, and found that it was full of spit.

The Apple III, which uses an 8-bit CPU from SynerTek, the second supplier of MOSTechnology, is 2MHz 6502A, and is designed for commercial use and will be the successor to the Apple II.

The underlying system software for Apple III includes an improved operating system, the SophisticatedOperatingSystem (SOS), which provides a directory-level file system and supports emulating 48KBAppleII+ features, as well as the new BASIC compiler, AppleBusinessBASIC, which also provides UCSDPascal for more powerful programming.

Other features include: 80-column uppercase and lowercase letter display support, 9-square grid number keys, real-time date clock support, 6-bit DAC digital to analog conversion audio, and 16-color image display capability.

In terms of peripherals, the Apple III has a built-in 140KB 5.25-inch floppy drive and supports up to 3 external floppy drives.

One of the most important performance indicators, the memory capacity, is 128 KB, which can be supported by bankswitching technology up to 256 KB and even up to 512 KB with the help of special technical means.

Truth be told, as an 8-bit microcomputer, the Apple III is excellent.

But don't forget, Apple is now the leader of the personal computer industry, and its new products will naturally be carefully studied by technology enthusiasts, and even peer competitors under a magnifying glass, and the only end of the few sales of computers contributed by Apple is the same as the situation on the desk next to Tang Huan, who is eager to make slices to study, maybe the advantages and disadvantages of AppleIII, these people have a more sober and deeper understanding than Apple itself.

In fact, while the magazine sprayed AppleIII to the skin, various opinions are also reasonable and well-founded, and completely defensible, while in Tang Huan's view, there are so many smart people in the world, and they are all to the point, for example, AppleIII's three major problems in hardware have been pointed out one by one.

For example, the most obvious point is that AppleIII does not have a cooling fan installed, which is of course a design that Jobs asked for in pursuit of quietness, which can support so many functions of AppleIII, the complexity of the circuit can be imagined, and a large amount of heat energy generated when it works cannot be transmitted only through the heat sink, and the magazine editor even joked that it can spread eggs on the metal chassis of AppleIII.

Under the influence of this problem, due to Jobs's strict restrictions on the size of the main chassis, the immature 'fine wire' wiring technology used in the circuit board of the Apple III has also begun to expose its shortcomings. Due to the fact that the gaps between the lines are quite narrow. When various chips are "squeezed" onto the circuit board and soldered in large quantities, solder drips between circuits that should not be connected, causing serious short circuits in the high temperature environment created by continuous operation.

IN ADDITION, IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE NEW FEATURES, APPLEIII USES A REAL-TIME CLOCK CHIP MADE BY THE NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANY, BUT IT HAS REPEATED PROBLEMS ON SOME COMPUTERS, AND ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT A COMMON PHENOMENON, IT IS SPRAYED HARDER.

When Tang Huan saw this, he secretly admired in his heart, the media here in the United States is indeed professional enough, and it is simply the key point of AppleIII every time.

Compared to these hardware defects, the magazine complained that the compatibility of AppleIII with AppleII's features has not actually been achieved, but it is not so glaring.

Sometimes, the power of the media can be terrifying.

In the original time and space, Microsoft's operating system Vista compared with the previous version of XP, has made a lot of improvements, but it is greedy for more than it can chew, not to mention the high requirements for hardware resources, and there are frequent problems, and the result is that the media sang down together, and finally ended in embarrassment.

But in fact, the later versions of the operating system Windows 7 and Windows 8 are not based on Vista, and users also enjoy the various conveniences brought by Windows 7.

It is estimated that Apple is still blindly optimistic, and I hope Robert will take it easy and not take too big a step to pull the eggs.

In the previous life, about 14,000 defective Apple IIIs were sold, and in the end Apple had to replace them for free for users.

In 1983, when the improved AppleIIIPlus, which had all the defects fixed, was launched, the planned "please allow me to introduce myself again" campaign could not reverse the decline of the infamous Apple III, and at that time, the 16-bit IBMPC and compatible phones were popular, and the Apple III had lost the need for existence, and was soon stopped by Apple and ended miserably.

Robert, you can jump vigorously now, the more AppleIII is sold, the more Apple is anxious, and you, and the shareholders of your faction, the more discredited and discredited you are, the more you lose your voice, and finally have to rely on Brother's software and Woz's AppleII to save the scene and decorate the façade for the stock listing.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan couldn't help but smile slightly, and the engineer who bought this magazine was happy to see his boss and technology idol flipping through it, and he was also happy, and asked: "Boss, how serious are these AppleIII problems mentioned in the magazine?" ”

"I guess we'll see it next month." Tang Huan smiled playfully, "That's why I asked you to stop for a while, I don't want your excellent labor fruits to be wasted." ”

After being affirmed and praised by Tang Huan in person, these hard-working engineers suddenly felt full of motivation. (To be continued......)