By 1983, the global economy had not yet shaken off the stagflation of the 70s. However, Motorola has already started the prelude to mobile phones, and IBM has ushered in the PC era.

The new scientific and technological revolution has opened up a new market for the economic development in the next 30 years.

Since IBM has opened up PC technology standards to IT vendors all over the world, Intel, AMD, . The annual sales of PCs produced reached 200,000 units, which is only on par with Apple. But in the first five months of '83, PC sales have exceeded 300,000 units.

Due to IBM's open technical standards, a large number of copycat companies began to appear in the market, purchasing hardware from IBM suppliers and assembling a large number of compatible machines in accordance with the technical standards published by IBM.

However, IBM was very annoyed and told many hardware vendors not to supply to those copycat manufacturers.

However, in the early 80s, semiconductor companies in the United States were hit by the impact of cheap electronic chips from their own manufacturers, and they lost money one after another.

As long as there is money to be made, it doesn't matter if it's an order from IBM or an order from a copycat.

It is these hardware manufacturers who defy IBM's warnings. Therefore, the number of PC compatible machines sold in the United States every month exceeds 100,000 units, and the output even exceeds that of IBM's own PCs!

A large number of compatible machines appeared, and Company D took advantage of this trend to sign contracts with many powerful compatible machine manufacturers, and authorized a large number of these manufacturers to cheaply pre-installed DOS operating systems, and each pre-installed DOS only needed to pay $1.

Although, most of the compatible machine manufacturers scoff at it and install pirated DOS directly.

However, there are also some PC compatible manufacturers who are willing to become bigger and stronger, and have signed a cooperation agreement with ORD to pre-install genuine DOS software.

By the end of April 1983, the total sales volume of DOS software had reached 700,000 sets, and basically, 70% of the world's PCs and PC-compatible machines were installed with DOS systems.

The ORD company, office software has also begun to exert force, and the new "Office1.0" software has been launched.

This set of "Office1.0" already includes ORD, Excel, and PoerPoint office software.

ORD is an excellent spreadsheet software for the word processing market, and PoerPoint is an excellent spreadsheet software that can be used to make presentations and slideshow files.

ORD, Excel do not need to be explained, there are already a large number of similar software on the market. Poerpoint, on the other hand, is a completely new application.

On May 5th. San Francisco.

ORD invited hundreds of industry peers and media reporters to hold a grand product launch conference to promote the software of "Office 1.0".

The point, of course, is to introduce poerpoint!

"PoerPoint is able to present at conferences, product launches, lectures, etc. In the past, we needed a lot of pictures to show. Not only does it waste a lot of paper, printing and typesetting, but more importantly, it is very cumbersome to use. Poerpoint, on the other hand, is very flexible, as long as you do simple work on the computer, you can constantly replace new pictures and display them on the slide.

If you don't have a computer, you can also make a slide film from the program in your computer and put it on the projector.

At the press conference, Huang Tingjun used poerpoint slides to cooperate with the speech to enhance the persuasiveness.

After Huang Tingjun's demonstration, a large number of manufacturers and media at the scene expressed great interest in PoerPoint and the "Office1.0" package.

The entire "Office 1.0" is also priced at only $150, which is basically the same as the previous "ORD" software. This is equivalent to a significant increase in the functionality of the use, but the price remains the same.

Shortly after the press conference, Office 1.0 quickly received orders for 100,000 units.

In addition, some enterprise users, schools, political axe institutions, and even directly handed over orders for slide projectors and slide making equipment to ORD companies. The price of each set of slide production and projection equipment reaches 1,000 US dollars, but the actual production cost is less than 300 US dollars.

ORD is not able to produce these hardware itself, but directly goes to some manufacturing factories in the United States to place orders. Each set of equipment can be given to these OEMs for 300 dollars, and the remaining 700 dollars of the difference is earned by ORD itself.

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but sigh and said: "This is the advantage of leading technology, those foundries are working hard, and the profits they make are not even a fraction of ours!"

—————————— when Huang Tingjun and Zhang Shaojie exchanged their recent work, the secretary said that the boss of Os's company asked to see him, and his expression seemed to be the number one person.

Zhang Shaojie was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is Osborne famous?" ”

Huang Tingjun explained: "Very famous! The company invented the portable laptop, and many critics agree that Osborne is a promising company! ”

"Laptops, aren't they invented?" Zhang Shaojie was stunned.

"Who said that? The Osborne 1 was the world's first commercial laptop! And this computer is also Adam. Osborne invented it at home alone. ”

With Huang Tingjun's explanation, Zhang Shaojie began to understand gradually.

Adam, owner of Osborne Computer Company. Osborne, a journalist and a writer, was not published because his "Introduction to Microcomputers" was not appreciated by publishers. So, Adam. Determined to abandon his pen and go into business, Osborne used his knowledge of computers to invent the world's first commercial laptop, the Osborne Model 1.

The Osborne 1 computer weighs 10 kilograms and uses a Z80 chip as the CPU, which is not inferior to an Apple computer or a PC. Although compared to later laptops, Osborne's computer was very bulky. But compared to the desktops of the 80s, Osborne is already very lightweight and can be carried around in a case.

On top of that, the Osborne computer is very cheap at just $1,795.

In order to expand Osborne's competitive advantage in the market, Adam. Osborne donated a large number of shares of the company to Kildare, Bill. Gates, Rubinstein, and others get the right to pre-install the company's software for free.

Since software was very expensive in the 80s, it was common for a set of applications to cost more than $100. Osborne's computer comes pre-loaded with a large number of free licensed genuine software, which undoubtedly makes this machine a huge appeal.

By 1982, Osborne's operating income had reached $70 million, making many business critics regard Osborne as a computer giant on a par with Steve Jobs.

And Osborne actually shouted in 82 years to "punch apples and step on IBM". However, although the ambition is huge, Osborne himself is less concerned with the management of the company, and instead focuses a lot of energy on media and social activities.

Later, in September '83, the entire Osben began to go bankrupt due to the rupture of the capital chain at its peak.

Osborne, who was taken to the office by the secretary, politely greeted Zhang Shaojie and Huang Tingjun.

After that, Adam. Osborne began to talk about his plan - Shenma plans to sell 500,000 laptops within this year, surpassing PCs and Apples to become the world's most powerful computer products. In the future, all users will only use portable Osborne laptops and abandon desktops.

Zhang Shaojie yawned and said, "I'm not interested in bragging!" ”

"So, are you interested in Osben's stock?" "It's free, and if you give us a free license to install the DOS system, I can give you 1% of Osborne's stock!" ”

At this time, Zhang Shaojie had already remembered the information of Oss Company and knew that this company would go bankrupt in September this year, and 1% of Oss Company's shares would be worthless.

However, before going bankrupt, Osben was able to sell 50,000 laptops a month, and if these computers were pre-installed with DOS, they could create more loyal users of the DOS system.

Therefore, Zhang Shaojie smiled: "Okay, I can agree!" ”

Adam. Osborne suddenly exclaimed: "You have made a wise decision! Although the free authorization of Osborne computer to install DOS will make you lose a little short-term profit, but in the future, the appreciation of Osborne's stock will make your investment profitable! I guarantee that in three years' time, Osben will be a supergiant with annual sales of more than $5 billion! Even if it's IBM and Apple, it's not as powerful as Osborne! ”

Zhang Shaojie flattered against his will: "I am convinced that with your ability, most of you will be able to become a computer giant in the future!" ”

Adam. After Osborne was flattered, he talked endlessly about his outlook for the computer industry, Osborne believes that PC and Apple are not in line with the development trend of future microcomputers, and only Osborne computers that are portable and have a large number of free pre-installed software will dominate the country.

Whoever wants to miss the opportunity brought by the development of Osborne computer will regret it for the rest of their lives

Zhang Shaojie and Huang Tingjun looked at Osborne's intoxicated expression, and they all laughed secretly in their hearts.

This guy is narcissistic!

Not to mention IBM's PCs have now received technical support from mainstream IT manufacturers all over the world, and even Apple's influence in the field of microcomputers is not comparable to that of the nouveau riche Osborne computer.

If it had been in the early 70s, Osben had already started a business, and perhaps there was still a possibility of becoming a hegemon. And now, Osborne can only rely on YY to fool people

(To be continued)