Chapter 194: Apple II
December 20th, Saturday, Christmas holiday.
Street.
The flow of people is like a tide, and the traffic is rolling.
It is rare for Shaohuai school to have a holiday, and Zhang Shaojie has the heart to relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the festival. Anita Mui called her sister Aifang, and the four of them walked shopping.
"Brother, you see it's appleii, it's so cheap, the discount price is 8,888 Hong Kong dollars, and it cost more than 10,000 a month ago!" Shaohuai pointed to the counter of the department store and said.
Appleii is an upgraded version of Apple's 75-year-old applei. The Appleii, which was launched in '77, was sold in a low-end configuration for $1,298 and a high-end configuration for $2,638.
Because appleii is an entry-level computer, it sells more than 100,000 units a year. Before the introduction of IBM's PCs, Appleii was already the hegemon of the microcomputer industry.
Appleii uses an 8-digit Motorola 6502 chip, which used to be the chip used by many game consoles in the 80s.
In the 90s, China's copycat FC game console, Xiaobawang, also used this chip. Until the 21st century, it was used in low-end electronic dictionaries.
In Zhang Shaojie's view, Appleii is just equivalent to an electronic dictionary, or a Xiaobawang game console. But for people at this time, it is already an entry-level high-tech product.
Zhang Shaojie nodded and said, "Okay, buy 4 appleii, everyone has a share, one for each person!" ”
Ai Fang was stunned and said: "No, no, it's a waste to buy it for me, and I won't use it."
Zhang Shaojie smiled: "I don't know how to use it, just learn." It's always useful to learn a little bit of computer knowledge, such as programming, and the like. ”
Anita Mui also said: "Sister, Shaojie is well-intentioned." Don't be pressured to learn a little bit of computer, it's always useful! ”
"Okay!" Aifang reluctantly accepted the gift.
A group of people, sweeping through the mall. Food, clothing, cosmetics, sex toys, all kinds of products as long as they feel useful, have been generously purchased.
Among the people in this line, the income is not low. Not only does Zhang Shaojie earn millions a month, but even Anita Mui can earn 50,000 a month, and Shaohuai can now earn seven or eight thousand pocket money by writing a little thing every month.
Only Aifang is a little embarrassed, and she can only have an income of 1,000 yuan per month.
Of course, there is Zhang Shaojie, a big guy who is paying, and everyone just spends money openly.
Zhang Shaojie's car was full of goods, so everyone began to prepare to leave.
Suddenly, a heavenly sound faintly came from the sound in a shopping mall.
And they listened
"Forgetting him is equivalent to forgetting everything, it is equivalent to throwing away Fang Hexiang and losing himself. Forgetting Him is equivalent to forgetting joy, it is equivalent to locking up the heart, being with pain, he is always the only one who can make me appreciate myself, and let me use love to make all ordinary things beautiful. Forget him, how can you afford to forget"
Anita Mui was surprised and said: "Who sang this, it's so good!" ”
Sister Aifang also nodded in agreement and said: "Among the female singers, except for Teresa Teng, there must be no one who can sing so well!" ”
Anita Mui said: "Teresa Teng has only sung Chinese songs, English songs, and Chinese songs, but she has never sung new Cantonese songs!" ”
"But, it sounds too much like Teresa Teng's voice." Aifang said.
"yes!" Shaohuai also nodded.
Zhang Shaojie smiled at this: "This is Teresa Teng's new song!" ”
"Oh?" Everyone looked at him curiously.
Zhang Shaojie smiled: "After Teresa Teng returned to Hong Kong, in addition to holding 7 concerts in a row, she also released her first Cantonese record. This record "Incompatible" was released a few days before Christmas, and the best song in the whole album is this "Forget Him"! The lyrics written by the music talent Huang Zhan and the song written by Weng Qingxi are simple lyrics, but in fact they are the pinnacle of great ingenuity. Especially a talented woman like Teresa Teng, who can fully express the artistic conception of the song, is destined to make this song a classic. However, this song is too graceful and beautiful, and it can only be sung in Cantonese, not in Chinese or other languages! ”
After hearing Zhang Shaojie's explanation, Anita Mui, Aifang, and Shaohuai suddenly realized.
"This kind of natural sound, only she can sing it!" Aifang smiled.
Anita Mui's heart was even more mixed, and at first she just thought this song was good. But the more I listened to it, the more I felt that this song might be Teresa Teng's lyrics to express her feelings.
Teresa Teng wants to forget "him", who is that "him"?
Anita Mui looked at Zhang Shaojie suspiciously, and felt more and more that there was a sense of annihilation.
If it were an ordinary man, stepping on multiple boats like this, Anita Mui would have gotten rid of him in a bad mood. However, Zhang Shaojie has a very wonderful charm, which makes her fall into it, even if she has signs of Zhang Shaojie from time to time in her heart and is hurt, Anita Mui still tries to tolerate him and make excuses for him in her heart.
For this reason, Anita Mui looked through the history books and found most of the talents in history, Su Dongpo and Tang Bohu, who are not romantic?
If you want men to be productive and attractive, then you must tolerate men's amorous style
"Hey" Anita Mui was extremely entangled in her heart.
If it were another man, it would be okay to like the new and hate the old, but Zhang Shaojie is so gentle and considerate to every girl, unforgettable, and difficult to give up - bad guy, I will always follow you, watching you, how many good girls can I do?
—————————— at the end of December, the filming task of the crew of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has been completed, and the remaining work is only the post-editing and the synthesis of the film's special effects shots.
The filming of the whole movie cost Zhang Shaojie a total of 8 million Hong Kong dollars.
Since September, ILM's computer special effects working group has spent HK$23 million. In addition to the synthesis of film special effects shots, these funds are more used for the exploration and research of technology. Of course, there is also more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars for the purchase of graphics workstations.
I have to say that this IBM graphics workstation is really helpful for the research and development of computer CG special effects technology, without this graphics workstation, just with some old equipment brought by Industrial Light & Magic, the production effect of computer special effects will definitely not be as smooth as it is now.
In fact, the use of a large number of computer special effects lenses like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is the first in the world.
Because this is ILM's first computer CG special effects experiment, ILM is not stingy with technology, but uses all cutting-edge technology to help "The Legend of Double Dragons of Datang" produce special effects.
At the same time, in the process of producing the special effects of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the technicians of Industrial Light and Magic overcame one technical problem after another, and registered more than 20 patents in more than two months, which were shared with Baolong Film Company.
At the same time, through a few months of cooperation, the computer technicians recruited by Baolong Film Company began to gradually learn the principles related to computer CG animation.
In these months, the technical staff of Baolong Film Company has also completed 8% of the workload, and gradually began to play its role in the team.
And Zhang Shaojie's wallet is also shrinking with the progress of special effects production.
By the time he entered January 1981, Zhang Shaojie had only HK$3 million in cash left in his bank account.
Of course, in Zhang Shaojie's stock market at this time, there are still 5.6 million securities assets that can be used for sale. If it really doesn't work, it can also be sold and cashed out to solve the financial problem.
Of course, these long-term high-quality stocks in the future, Zhang Shaojie is eager to increase his holdings more, where is he willing to reduce his holdings?
100,000 shares of HSBC with a market value of HK$2.6 million, while 1 million shares of Hutchison Whampoa with a market value of HK$3 million.
The operators of these two companies are experts in buying bottoms.
During economic downturns, HSBC frequently engages in mergers and acquisitions around the world. At this time, HSBC's scale was only 15 billion Hong Kong dollars, but 30 years later, the capital scale reached 1.5 trillion Hong Kong dollars, ranking among the top 10 financial institutions in the world.
And Li Ka-shing of Hutchison Whampoa can also be called an expert in real estate and stock markets. Whenever the real estate industry is in a long-term depression and the land price is cheap, Li Ka-shing will let his real estate companies acquire land on a large scale. When the stock market is sluggish and the stock price is low, it is also the time when Li Ka-shing frequently increases his shareholding in the company.
Because Li Ka-shing combines speculation and investment, he mainly relies on long-term holding and dividends to make profits, but once the stock price is cheap, he is to increase his holdings and pick up the cheap. When the stock price rose to a sky-high price, Li Ka-shing issued new shares at a high price to make money. Hong Kong later summed up the law - every time Li Ka-shing wants to issue new shares on a large scale, the Hong Kong stock market will soon have a stock market crash!
From an investment perspective, the most important thing in stock selection is not to choose a company's current profitability. It's about choosing managers who are capable, or who have a culture that consistently rewards shareholders.
Li Ka-shing is an extremely sound manager. In the early 80s, people said that Jianing Real Estate was so powerful that it surpassed Li Ka-shing's struggle for decades in a few years, but after the bubble of Jianing Real Estate Company burst, it went bankrupt and liquidated. At the end of the 90s, everyone said that investing a few million yuan to create an Internet company, after going public, was worthy of Li Ka-shing's decades of hard work. But in 2002, after the collapse of the Internet bubble, Li Ka-shing was still Li Ka-shing, but most of the brilliant Internet stocks became junk stocks, and dozens of yuan stocks fell to a few cents, and there are countless of them!
In Zhang Shaojie's view, the essence of doing business is to make money, and to be able to make money continuously. Rather than telling a story, describing the fantastical future prospects.
(To be continued)