The matter of buying a house in Beverly Hills can be put on hold, and Wang Zijun's main job now is to prepare for the filming of "The Face of the Heroes". (The update is the fastest and most stable, see, .k.)

The two women in the family are still in a cold war, in fact, it is Lin Qingxia who wants to have a cold war, and Lin Fengjiao has a smiling face on it for a while, but she is blocked back by a cold face.

On the contrary, Lin Yi and Wang Feiyu, a pair of little brothers and sisters, have a harmonious relationship, wherever Lin Yi goes, Xiao Feiyu follows his brother in a hurry, and he will cry if he doesn't see him for a while.

Wang Zijun slept on the sofa at home for three days, and the storyboard script was finally created.

Razim was not idle on these days, taking a literary script and identifying several filming locations in the United States. Now as soon as the storyboard script came out, Wang Zijun asked him to take Ke Shouliang's flying car stunt team to contact the car dealer. Due to the tension of work, Wang Zijun found a middle-aged woman named Deborah in the company and asked her to be responsible for contacting the California police department, aircraft leasing company, airport and other units, after all, there are various scenes of police cars, motorboats, and planes colliding in the movie.

There is also reporting to the government to buy explosives, and there are more than a few explosions in the movie.

As for Wang Zijun, he took the special effects artists of Industrial Light and Magic to the MITS company in New Mexico.

Accompanying Wang Zijun was Cooks. Barnett and Evan. Bunier, both of whom are veterans of ILM, have participated in the special effects production of "Ghost Love" and "Star Wars" throughout the process.

After getting on the plane, Kuks asked, "Wang, do you have any special needs when you heard Lazim say that this is the future technology in 20 years?" ”

"Look at these things." Wang Zijun took out a stack of manuscript paper and handed it to the two of them, these are all future technological equipment that he has hand-drawn.

Evan. When Bunier got the papers, the first one showed a man on the phone, and strangely enough, there was no phone line, but a small box. There are a couple of zoomed-in diagrams of strange telephones, with flip covers, slide covers, and numeric buttons on them, just like landlines.

"Mobile phone?" Evan. Bunier saw the English name next to it and asked, "Wang, doesn't this phone need a phone line?" What does it rely on for the exchange of sound information? ”

Wang Zijun said: "Yes, this is the communication tool of the future. This mobile phone can be carried in the pocket of your clothes without worry, and you can take it out anytime and anywhere to keep in touch with friends. It should also have camera, music playback, and so on. ”

"Oh, that's a genius idea." Cooks laughed, "Wang, I think you can go write science fiction." ”

Wang Zijun said: "This is not my whim, I heard that Motorola is already developing mobile phones, but the size is relatively large, and it only has a call function." Wang Zijun flipped out the following piece of manuscript paper, "In fact, everything I draw has a prototype. For example, this laptop, also known as a laptop, is as convenient as a notebook, you can carry it around, and you can use it to work freely after opening it, and you can also use it to listen to music and watch movies. ”

"Great, you said I wanted one." Cooks laughed.

In this era, personal computers still only have simple office functions, and the future personal computers described by Wang Zijun really sound like a product of science fiction.

Evan asked, "Now that you've designed the shape, what are we going to do at MITS this time?" ”

"In addition to these, there are some machines inside, such as the operating room when changing faces, and all kinds of machines in it are fictitious. I can only describe it as a general idea, but we went there this time to discuss with the technical staff of MITS about how to make it. In addition, some machine circuits, components, etc., also need their help to make them. Wang Zijun said. …,

In fact, Wang Zijun wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a movie this time to help MITS advertise privately.

As soon as "The Face Snatcher" was released, not to mention the plot, but only to say that there were all kinds of gorgeous and practical future technology equipment in it, which was enough to cause the audience to go crazy.

If you think about it, if all these technological devices have a MITS logo, the effect is terrifying.

I am afraid that most of the technology enthusiasts among the audience who have watched the movie will be interested in and have a good impression of MITS's products.

When they came to New Mexico, Zhang Anle had already arranged a car to pick them up.

Now that MITS is back on track, Steve Brown. After approaching the company's 20 suppliers, Ballmer spent a month coming up with a plan that, if implemented, would reduce the company's PC production costs by 18 percent.

One of the reasons for the cost drop is that Ballmer communicated with Intel to cut the price of the computer's microprocessors.

Intel was really black, when Henry. When Roberts made a computer, Intel asked for $397 for a chip, which is equivalent to the price of MITS's original personal computer. Intel's sky-high asking price, Henry. Roberts paid the money back, and finally went all the way from $397 to $75.

The price is still too high, and more than a year later, Apple's computers are using Motorola chips. At that time, the market price of Intel's chips had dropped to $200, but Motorola with the same function was only $20. The spread is tenfold!

Ballmer went directly to Intel with a Motorola chip, and said very shamefully that MITS had suffered serious losses and had now changed bosses. The new boss said that if the price of Intel's chips is still so high, they will consider changing suppliers.

As a result, the purchase price of chips was smoothly reduced from $75 to $30.

In addition, in the past, the price of MITS' personal computers was low, and Apple's same product cost nearly $600, while MITS's computers were still nearly $80 lower than Apple's computers after a price increase. Ballmer's second suggestion was to raise prices again.

MITS's products have a market, quality, do not need small profits and quick turnover, and are so much lower than Apple computers, I am afraid that people who buy personal computers for the first time still think that the quality of MITS' products is not as good as Apple's.

Of course, continuous price increases may cause dissatisfaction among users.

The reason for the price increase at MITS is that the company has increased costs in order to enhance the performance of computers.

In fact, MITS did spend money on this, and it cost a full $200,000.

In the process of contacting the company's 40 sellers, Zhang Anle learned that the biggest problem reported by customers is that the computer expander is always faulty, which makes some original customers turn to HP and Apple.

Henry. Roberts used to be financially budget-conscious, and to put it bluntly, he was a petty family.

Zhang Anle's personality has always been very bold, and he is unambiguous in this kind of thing, and after learning about the specific situation, he directly approached IMB for help, and spent a sky-high price of $200,000 for him to help improve the MITS expander.

$200,000, but the net profit of the whole family of MITS last year.

Not only that, Zhang Anle also sent employees to provide door-to-door service to replace new expanders for free to customers who complained about problems with the expander.

As a result, Ballmer's decision reduced the company's PC production costs by 18 percent and increased the unit price of its products by $50. As soon as Zhang Anle came, he spent $200,000 to replace the expander for free, which also cost the company more than $100,000.

One of these two saves money to make money, but the other spends money like running water, which is really a perfect match.

When Wang Zijun came to MITS with two special effects artists, Zhang Anle personally came out to greet him and said in Chinese: "Zijun, I just have something to discuss with you." ”…,

"What's the matter?" Wang Zijun asked.

Zhang Anle said: "Change the name of the company." ”

"That's what you say." Wang Zijun smiled. He knew what Zhang Anle meant, because he thought that MITS's company name was smelly and difficult to remember, and it had no momentum at all.

(MITS is the abbreviation of the company's name, the full name is micro_instrumentation_d_telemetry_systems, which translates into Chinese is: Micrometer System Household Appliance Subsidiary)

It's not easy to remember, and it doesn't have momentum, so of course it's not cool to listen to. In fact, the name Roberts used when he sold the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculator was frustrating.

Zhang Anle said: "I discussed it with Ballmer, and he also thought the name was bad. However, now that our company is very famous, if we change our name rashly, the result will be unpredictable. ”

Wang Zijun said: "If you think you should change it, change it, and replace it as soon as possible, otherwise the advertising I made for you in the movie will be in vain." ”

Zhang Anle asked: "You are the boss, what name do you think is good to change?" ”

Wang Zijun thought about it for a while, but he couldn't think of any good names for a while. After thinking about it, I felt that it was enough to have a name with my own game company.

Nintendo's name in the United States is "Lineage Video Games", so this MITS company might as well be changed to "Lineage Technology".

In fact, it doesn't matter what it's called, as long as it can be remembered, such as Apple, how easy it is to remember. The full name of MITS was too speechless.

Wang Zijun said the name of "Paradise Technology Company", and Zhang Anle immediately agreed.

In fact, this name change will not have much impact on computer sales, because when customers mention MITS computers, they are talking about the computer model "Altair", and the company's name is rarely mentioned.

"By the way, what about Ballmer, isn't he in the company?" Wang Zijun asked.

Zhang Anle said: "He went to Harvard and said that he was going to dig up a talent." ”

"What kind of talent needs him to go in person." Wang Zijun asked with a smile.

Zhang Anle said: "Ballmer said that this person is his apprentice, and he is very good at programming, and his ability is not as good as that of the Paul you admire. Alan low. ”

"Oh, that's amazing!" Wang Zijun's eyes lit up.

Regarding Ballmer's words, Wang Zijun does not doubt that there cannot be only one Paul in one Harvard University. Alan, it's just that those people are not famous.

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