After Shugart saw that he only said the LD CD, Ye Kai fell into deep thought, although he didn't know what his boss was thinking, he didn't dare to step forward to interrupt the boss's train of thought without authorization, so he could only sit opposite Ye Kai in a daze. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Soon, Ye Kai, who had figured everything out, walked out of his own world, looked at Shu Gart, who was sitting very well, and said with a smile: "Shu Gart, I have already thought of a solution." ”

Shugart looked at Ye Kai curiously, blinked his eyes, and asked curiously, "Boss, what way?" ”

"It's very simple, it is to use magneto-optical technology to make a 2-inch magneto-optical disc, the capacity is not too large, there is a size of 100KB." Ye Kai explained. "The game's software is copied on the disc in the same format as a floppy drive reads the data on the floppy disk sector, and it looks the same, with a protective case and a reading window."

"Boss, this magneto-optical disc is indeed a great idea." Shugart said admiringly. "Actually, when I was at IBM, when I was developing floppy disks, I was originally going to develop magneto-optical discs。。。。。。"

"What's going on?" Shugart succeeded in arousing Ye Kai's desire for gossip.

"The theory of magneto-optical technology appeared as early as the 18th century, but it was not until the 60s that magneto-optical discs began to be studied, and the year before last, the Japanese telephone and telegraph company made a major breakthrough in physical objects. When we were researching floppy disks, we were actually inspired by magneto-optical disc technology. ”

"At the beginning, IBM needed to research storage devices to replace hard disks, because hard disks were very expensive at that time. Moreover, the environmental requirements for production are very high, and the aluminum disk used as data storage in the hard disk all need to be manually installed, so the yield rate is quite low. ”

"And they insisted that hard drives were the best choice for future storage tasks, so they asked us to pull people from the hard drive project and form a new department to look at alternative storage. As a result, magneto-optical technology has come into our sight. However, after our final evaluation, it was found that if we were to develop magneto-optical discs, the investment would be quite high, and the drivers would be very expensive, which would not be conducive to popularization. Because magneto-optical disks are required to be able to write data but also to be able to erase data, the cost of a drive that reads and writes data will be very high. ”

"It is precisely because of this that we have given up on the development of magneto-optical discs, and instead improved them on the basis of the research of magneto-optical discs. The read/write technology incorporated into the hard disk becomes a floppy disk. However, other companies took inspiration from our company and continued to work on magneto-optical discs. ”

"In that case, there will be basically no problem for you to develop our company's own magneto-optical disc in the future?" Ye Kai asked excitedly.

"Of course." Shugart replied confidently. "Besides, the capacity you require is not high, plus the storage as a game software, do not add read and erase functions at all, the cost will be greatly reduced, and even much lower than the price of a floppy drive."

"Then you can roughly calculate how much a game magnetic disc costs?" Ye Kai asked.

"If it's made in large quantities and the capacity is so low, it probably doesn't cost more than $3 per sheet." Shugart silently calculated in his mind before replying. "In the case of the driver, only the photoelectric conversion circuit on the circuit board needs to be redesigned, and the digital processing circuit will be much simpler than that of the floppy drive, and the cost will be greatly reduced. At present, it is impossible to determine the price of only the laser head assembly, but in general, the cost will be half that of the floppy drive. ”

"That's for the best." Ye Kai said happily. "After all, the hardware of game consoles is basically sold at a loss or at a loss, and if you can lose less, you will lose less. Also, Shugart, what do you say if you put this magneto-optical disc in your computer and use it as storage for the operating system? ”

"What? How else can it be?" As a technology master, Shugart, as soon as he heard it, understood the meaning of Ye Kai's words, when IBM developed the hard disk, wasn't it just to abandon the paper tape program and tape memory, so that the software and operating system permanently reside in the hard disk?

They once found the right way, but they disliked that the capacity of the magnetic disc was too small, and the read and write speed of the magnetic disc was far inferior to that of the hard disk, so they gave up. They only completed the research and development of magneto-optical discs in theory, and gave up this road without physical verification at all, because magneto-optical discs, whose capacity and speed are far inferior to hard disks, have no practical meaning in mainframe computers.

"Boss, how did you come up with the idea of storing magneto-optical discs as hardware?" Shugart asked cautiously.

"Because I'm fed up with the way PCs are operated today." Ye Kai said with deep hatred. "I don't want to plug in a startup disk every time I use a computer, then insert a software disk, and then look at the computer in the pitch black, flashing the cursor, waiting for me to type instructions. Therefore, I decided to develop a new operating system that would make it easy and clear to operate the computer. ”

"First of all, the first step is to cancel the boot disk, but to cancel the boot disk, you need to find a place to sacrifice for the operating system, the floppy drive is definitely not good, because it needs to be installed inside the computer, which means that its read and write window must be open all the time, and it is carried inside the chassis for a long time, the temperature is the biggest killer of floppy disks, and after thinking about it, I finally chose a magnetic optical disc."

"Therefore, after the establishment of the new company you are responsible for, the first task is to develop the magneto-optical disc and its drive, as well as the burning machine for burning the magnetic disc, and then your old hard disk and floppy drive 。。。。。。"

"Boss, don't you have a magnetic disc? Why do you need to do floppy drives? Shugat asked curiously.

"Because, I only sell system CDs that burn systems and software, as well as game CDs. Therefore, the floppy drive is also needed on the computer as a mobile data storage. Ye Kai explained. Because, in the future, we will also produce complete computers. ”

Shugart nodded in understanding.

Then, Ye Kai handed over the task of developing an 8 cm portable CD player to Shugart, on the grounds that the driver of the magneto-optical disc also needs a laser head component and a photoelectric conversion circuit.

"Boss, what's the name of our new company?" Shugat pinched the information on the technical parameters of the portable player written down by Ye Kai in his hand, and when he left the conference room, he took the initiative to ask with great difficulty.

"Let's call it Seagate Technology LLC." Ye Kai, who had no talent for choosing names, once again used the doctrine of taking, and directly used the name of the Shugart company in his previous life.