With the beginning of Shugart's self-introduction, when he was introduced to 1951-1969, he joined IBM as a field engineer and participated in the research and development of hard disk drives and floppy disks, Ye Kai had already determined that the round-faced man with glasses in front of him was Shugart, who was called the "father of hard disks" in his previous life. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, the "father of hard disks" can also be called the "father of floppy disks", and now is the era of floppy disks, and according to the historical development trajectory, until 2002, floppy disks will not be withdrawn from the market, and before that, there are as many as 5 billion floppy disks in the world are in use.

The floppy disk has a slow access speed and a small capacity, but it can be loaded and detached, and it is easy to carry. As a removable storage method, it is ideal for small files that need to be physically moved. Since it is a small file, it should be fine not only for text, but also for pictures and videos.

So, can the current game cartridge be replaced by a floppy disk?

Ye Kai instantly thought of this problem, the price of the popular 5.25-inch floppy disk is about 20 US dollars, and the price of the floppy disk drive is about 200 US dollars. If you produce it yourself, the price will be reduced to about 5 times the market price.

If you produce a 2.25-inch floppy disk with a capacity of about 64KB, will the price be even lower? Then the $10 hardware cost of the game cartridge will be greatly reduced. Floppy disks have high maintenance requirements, and rough use can easily cause them to be damaged, so players will spend money to buy new 。。。。。。。

Secondly, the floppy disk can also temporarily act as a hard disk in the computer, you must know that the current operating system, called the disk operating system, has not yet appeared, and the running is still the CP/M operating system, a privilege to command the host, memory, magnetic drum, tape, disk, printer and other hardware equipment. By controlling the programs and data on the bus, the operating system executes people's instructions in an orderly manner, like the operating system that conducts an evening party or orchestra and efficiently ensembles beautiful movements.

The disk operating system, also known as the DOS system, is a makeover of CP/M jointly pushed out by IBM and Microsoft, and it is operated on the computer by typing instructions. These operating systems are simply a kind of torture for Ye Kai, who is accustomed to the Windows operating system, so, unless it has to be used, Ye Kai generally resists the computer.

And the appearance of Shugart allowed Ye Kai to find a solution to this problem, after all, as a professional in science and technology, the computer is an indispensable tool.

Ye Kai's idea is to install a floppy disk drive in the computer, and put a floppy disk in it, on which a simple Windows operating system is installed, this operating system will be equipped with a mouse, and it is very convenient and intuitive to operate on the graphical interface with the mouse.

And if Ye Kai is not mistaken, this year Sony will launch a 3.5-inch floppy disk with a capacity of 876KB, which is suitable for installing the operating system, and by the way, you can also put office software on it and bundle it.

It's a pity that Ye Kai was born with a natural lack of good impression of the Japanese, especially businessmen, so as a floppy disk and driver for the system disk, with Shugart, will there be a problem in developing this 3.5-inch floppy disk?

As Microsoft, which ruled the personal computer operating system in the previous life, in this repeated time and space, his future path is the vane of the development of Ye Kai's software company.

You must know that the operating system software MS-DOS developed by Microsoft for IBM-PCs in 1981 has been used in hundreds of millions of IBM-PCs and their compatible computers. Because the popularity of IBM-PCs has made MS-DOS a huge success, because other PC manufacturers want to be compatible with IBM.

MS-DOS was licensed by many companies, so in the 80's it became the standard operating system for PCs. By 1984, Microsoft had sales of more than $100 million. Subsequently, Microsoft continued to develop software for computers at IBM, Apple, and Radio Equipment.

Microsoft, which tasted the sweetness of operating systems and software, took advantage of the partnership with Apple to see from Apple, in fact, that Apple was stealing other companies' graphical interface systems, so it launched its own graphical interface system ------ Windows 3.1 operating system the following year.

Since then, Microsoft has been out of control, and his fist product Windows98/NT/2000/Me/XP/Server2003 has successfully occupied a broad market from PCs to commercial workstations and even servers, bringing huge profits to Microsoft: the company is also catching up in Internet software, seizing a large market share.

Microsoft's enormous potential has permeated every aspect of the software world, and it is simply pervasive and invincible. Microsoft's enormous influence has put tremendous pressure on its software peers and has put itself in the position of a defendant in antitrust law. Even Intel, a reliable partner for many years, has turned against it and taken Bo to court. In September 2001, in view of the economic downturn, the U.S. government intended to revive the U.S. information industry and refused to break up Microsoft.

At this point, the antitrust bill against Microsoft has come to an end.

Ye Kai's future software company will re-follow the path of Microsoft's foul play, Ye Kai doesn't know. However, Microsoft's case once again sounded the alarm for Ye Kai. That is, even if you want to find a lover in the company, then you must find a lover who is both beautiful and intelligent, like the three future beautiful presidents.

Don't ignore the other party's inner Stefani-like woman who has a bad heart for the sake of coveting the other party's beautiful appearance, and this woman is the woman who fascinated Mr. Gates and unrestrainedly involved the other party in the company's secrets, thus causing his personal fortune to lose a huge fortune of $8 billion in the stock market.

Since we want to take Microsoft's future development path as the direction of progress, there will soon be a road to choose, that is, can the work of providing operating systems for IBM be next?

You know, Mr. Gates was able to successfully take over IBM's order, and his mother's help was not unrelated. Because his mother worked with IBM CEO John Ax when she was president of the National United Way Executive Council.

But, then again, what does it matter if you work together?

In the previous life, IBM initially liked Kiel's CP/M operating system, which is known as the "father of operating systems", but in fact they also looked for Kiel, because Kiel provided the operating system for their mainframe computers. However, the opinions of both sides are not on one channel, which leads to the breakdown of negotiations.

IBM, whose negotiations broke down, began to set its sights on those small software companies, and Gates's Microsoft was just one of them, and the unprepared Gates hurriedly bought a pirated system from the market for $50,000.

In the end, in the review of IBM executives, the relationship between Gates's mother played a huge role in it.