Jobs's desire to design a disk drive machine on AppleII made Chen Yihua think a lot, isn't it because of the emergence of mobile hard disks, which single-handedly led to the diversified development of data storage devices. There are hard disks and floppy disk drives on computers today, but there are no removable optical drives.

In 1972, researchers at Philips in the Netherlands began using laser beams to record and replay information. In the end, the research was successful, and they found that a laser focusing could obtain a beam of about 1 micrometer (μm) in diameter, through which the information on the CD disc could be written and read.

Although the CD disc has appeared now, but Philips did not use this technology, the emergence of the CD disc first made Philips think of its use in the record, and did not realize that the CD disc portrays the vast space in the future, Philips itself is the world's largest record tape production company, so it is not in a hurry to use this new technology, and later generations until 79 years, Philips developed a commercial laser turntable player.

It was only in 1980 that Philips and Sony developed the RedBook standard for CD-DA laser turntables. And the CD album appeared in 1982.

It was only after the success of the CD-DA system that Philips and Sony thought of using CD-DA as a large-capacity read-only memory for computers, and thought of using CD-DA as the memory of computers, which also led to the birth of CD-ROM for optical disk drives.

The most widely used mobile hard disk in later generations is the disc and U disk, Chen Yihua of course knows the huge profits inside, Philips does not pay attention to CD discs also gave Chen Yihua a chance, Chen Yihua does not want Apple to study disc technology now, the road has to come step by step, he wants Apple to develop its own hard disk drive and floppy disk drive first, and make a removable hard disk.

The beginning of digital storage devices are originated from the use of phonographs, hard disks, floppy disks, CD discs and record principles are very similar, Apple as long as there is a certain foundation in hard disks and floppy disks, the future is not impossible to invent CD-ROM disc first Philips, even if it is not the first step, Apple can also be regarded as an opportunity to increase the experience of digital recording technology storage research, you must know that CD-ROM has a series of extended products, Apple as long as there is an accumulation in this area, It is not a dream to develop a CD player, a video recorder, or a USB flash drive for a storage device.

If possible, Chen Yihua of course hopes that Tianyi will develop storage devices, but Hong Kong is not as good as the United States after all, whether it is the hardware environment or the software environment, Tianyi is not as good as Apple's side, anyway, Chen Yihua is now the major shareholder of Apple, Apple can succeed in this regard, and it can also lead to support Tianyi in the future, so that Tianyi will not take detours.

In the final analysis, chips and storage devices are two large-scale manufacturing industries, and their research and development makes Apple have very large requirements for funds, and the storage device company is still developing it, but a small chip processing plant has been set up within Apple, and Apple's early profit of 300,000 yuan has not yet arrived, and it will be swallowed up in the blink of an eye.

Chen Yihua has invested several sums of money into Apple during this time, the loan of 500,000 US dollars made Chen Yihua the largest creditor of Apple, and the investment of 400,000 US dollars further diluted the shares of Jobs and Woz in the company, it turned out that when Apple was first established, the Nanchao Chen Fund owned 30% of the shares, the seedling fund 15, Chen Yihua personally held 10% of the shares, Steve Jobs owned 25 shares, and Steve Wozniak owned 20% of the shares.

Apple needs funds, Chen Yihua can't do a loss-making business, give Apple money for no reason, just 400,000 US dollars of investment, Apple's shares have become, Nanchao Chen Fund has 30% of the shares, Seedling Fund 25, Chen Yihua personally holds 10%, Predator International Investment Fund 10%, Steve Jobs has 15% of the shares, and Steve Wozniak has 10% of the shares.

After the expansion of Chen Yihua's capital, the current Apple company is more like Chen Yihua's private enterprise, and 75% of the shares also make Apple in the state of Chen Yihua's absolute control, which is still the result of Chen Yihua's mercy, if it were not for the fact that Apple still needs Jobs and Watts, Chen Yihua's $500,000 lent to Apple can be used to further dilute the shares of the two in the company.

'President, Miss Lee so-kyung is here'

Apple's research center, only to see people coming and going, a Chinese man leaned over to Jobs's side and said.

At present, Apple has not specifically divided several places for the company's engineers to do research, whether it is the research of chips or the research of storage, Apple is concentrated in this research center, and the final design of Apple's computer is also completed here, Jobs's interest in research is now higher than that of the management company, and more than half of the time in a day is spent in this research center.

"Xiujing, why are you here, let's go, go to my office to talk"

'Well' Hearing Jobs say this, Li Xiujing just whispered.

Jobs was very familiar with Li Xiujing and enthusiastic, and as soon as he heard that the other party was coming, he immediately put down his beloved research and ran out to greet the other party.

Jobs is so enthusiastic about Li Xiujing not only because the other party is Chen Yihua's agent, but also because Li Xiujing is a beautiful girl, everyone has a love for beauty, Jobs is only 21 years old now, and he has no girlfriend yet, when he saw Li Xiujing, he was fascinated by this beautiful oriental woman, and he was one of Li Xiujing's many suitors.

'Steve, I heard you guys have decided to launch the Apple II this Christmas'

Apple's president's office is not luxurious, but there is still a living room, and Li Xiujing asked about business not long after he sat down.

"Yes, Xiujing, now the AppleII computer has been relatively mature, whether it is cost or technology, we control it very well, I think the AppleII computer will definitely be very popular."

The Apple II appeared earlier than it was in history, and if it weren't for the fact that Apple was waiting to develop its own processor, it might have been on sale now.

'You decide how to price this computer'

'Well, we have a lot of models of the Apple II that we launched this time, but the first model that came out first was a home computer, which retailed a little more than the Apple I, $1280'

'I see Christmas is coming, is the company ready for sales?'

"Don't worry, there are more than a dozen Apple stores, we have trained the sales staff of the stores, there is absolutely no problem, as for the publicity, we don't want to spend too much money, I want to wait until tomorrow in April, after the AppleII to the first West Coast Computer Exhibition, in the promotion of this computer"

Li Xiujing is Chen Yihua's representative, of course she is qualified to listen to Jobs' report on this matter, in fact, the current Li Xiujing is more like the emperor of Apple, Apple's president, although the vice president is Jobs and Wads, but the financial director, the personnel director, and many important directors of the company are Chen Yihua's people, as soon as you walk into Apple, you will find that many company employees are yellow.

Chen Yihua is very attentive to Apple, he has invested so much, it is impossible to make a wedding dress for people, Apple is expanding, Chen Yihua has never stopped inserting the company's internal personnel, maybe because Jobs and Wads are too young now, and they are too naïve in terms of business experience, after the operation of Anna and Li Xiujing, compared with influence in Apple, Chen Yihua, the boss who has never shown his face, is much stronger than Jobs, the nominal president.

"Well, that's good, I'm here to find you something, our boss has a message, and he hopes to get Apple's cooperation."

When Li Xiujing left Hong Kong, Chen Yihua told her not to interfere in the specific operation of the company, as long as she took care of personnel and financial matters, maybe because of this, Jobs They would not mind Chen Yihua's super influence on Apple.

'Yes, what did Chen say' Jobs was not very surprised by the news, because Li Xiujing rarely came to Apple, and she usually only came to Hong Kong when there was something to do.

"The boss needs some equipment in the near future, I need your help to contact it, and I need Apple to come up with parts that can assemble a hundred AppleI, not a whole computer, just parts."

'Why do you need a hundred AppleI this time, isn't Chen there only as AppleII' Listening to Li Xiujing say this, Jobs was surprised and helped Chen Yihua buy some equipment, Jobs had done a lot before, and many of the equipment needed in Hong Kong were purchased through Apple, because some parts of the pager are very precise, even if there is money, those foreigners will not necessarily sell to a Chinese, and Apple said that it is much more convenient and faster in the middle.

When AppleII was still in development, Chen Yihua bought a few, even though the AppleII computer was not mature at that time, but Chen Yihua wanted it instead of AppleI, Jobs didn't know why Chen Yihua wanted this computer to be eliminated for Apple this time.

Not only did Jobs not know, but even Li Xiujing, who came to inform him, didn't know why Hong Kong did this, in fact, it was very simple, at the beginning, Chen Yihua did not mean to let Tianyi produce computers now, but then after thinking about it, he decided to see how the Hong Kong market reacted to computers, this hundred AppleI was used to practice for Tianyi Company, if this computer sells well, Chen Yihua will continue to import from Apple, otherwise he will let Tianyi settle down, and wait until Apple's products are relatively mature, Tianyi Company then assembles Apple's mature products and sells them on the market.

"Xiujing, are you free at night, I'll invite you to dinner" Seeing that the matter was over, of course Jobs would not let go of this opportunity to get close to the beautiful woman, and said cheekily.

'No, I have something to do'

It's a pity that Lang has no intention of having a concubine, for this kind of thing, Li Xiujing has always been very neat. She didn't mean to give Jobs a chance, Jobs was also a handsome boy here for foreigners, but Li Xiujing didn't plan to find a foreign boyfriend, I don't know if it was influenced by his father, for men, Li Xiujing has always been very vigilant, very cautious about finding a boyfriend, and has a slight cleanliness habit.