In September 1951, the world's first transistor radio was launched. It was launched three years earlier than the original historical transistor radio, and was low-cost, compact and easy to carry. The casing of this radio is made of plastic, and it comes in red, black, blue, and white, which looks like a futuristic technology.

The soapbox-sized radio costs $65.5, which is equivalent to a week's earnings for a blue-collar worker. It's a bit more expensive than a tube radio, but the performance, appearance, and various data comparisons are much better. It costs $10, and Carpenter Electronics is able to earn around $55 for every unit sold.

Every revolutionary product is on the market, it's a time to make a profit. The same goes for this transistor radio, which is very profitable.

Kars is a businessman, he is forty-three years old, and his health is already slightly blessed.

He was walking home, thinking about what gift he would buy for his wife, and tomorrow would be their twentieth wedding anniversary.

"What should I give as a gift?" Rings? Well, it was already sent last year. Or a gold necklace? Kars thought to himself as he looked around at the jewelry stores.

As I walked, I suddenly heard a burst of music. He looked closely at a black man approaching him, and the voice came from him.

"Strange!" He thought to himself, and when he looked closely, the black man was holding a black box in his hand. He wanted to ask, but for some reason, he couldn't.

Kars shook his head, stepped over with the black man, and after a few steps, he turned back and listened.

He confirmed, it was music playing on a radio station.

"Could it be, is that a radio?" Kars reacted immediately, he had never seen such a small radio. He had the impression that the radio was as big and heavy as a wooden box.

The thought that it was a radio tickled in his heart, and he almost caught up with the black man and asked him. Thankfully, he didn't catch up because he heard another piece of music. No, more than one paragraph, it seems like there is music moving everywhere in the street. The streets, which are usually quieter, are filled with music.

This time, he saw several young white men, both men and women, talking and laughing, all holding small black radios.

Kars immediately went up to stop them, and asked eagerly, "Do you have a radio in your hand?" ”

"That's right! This is a new transistor radio that is lightweight, so you can not only carry it in your hand but also fit it in your pocket. A young man in his twenties showed him a demonstration and put the radio in his pocket. The music still hasn't stopped, it's still so clear and loud.

"So where did you buy this radio? How much? Kars hurriedly asked, he wanted to buy one for his wife.

When those young people heard this, they all laughed. This made Kars wonder, he didn't know why those people were laughing at him, was this question very cola?

Another young man explained to him: "It's gone, these radios are not expensive, only $65.5 a piece." We bought it at the store in front, and many people were grabbing it just now, but they didn't get it. ”

One young man said, "Several people have already asked us that. They, like you, want to buy, but are a step too late. ”

Kars was stunned, he didn't expect this kind of radio to sell so well, and it was snatched up at once.

The young men were about to leave, but Kars hurriedly grabbed them: "Can you sell me one?" I'm willing to pay double the price. ”

One of the young men looked at the money Kars had taken out, thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll sell you my one." ”

Kars, who got his wish, happily took the radio and walked away, he turned on the radio all the way, turned up the sound to the maximum, and walked down the road with his toes high. The passers-by around him all looked at him with surprised eyes, and Kars felt an indescribable sense of comfort in his heart.

Kars twisted left and right, changing the radio channel, and when he saw the logo on the radio, he whispered, "Carpenter! Well, it was called Carpenter Radio. ”

When he got home, before he entered the house, he heard the sound of radio music coming from inside. Kars had a strange and foreboding premonition. He opened the door and saw his wife standing in the doorway, also holding a "carpenter" radio.

"Why don't you ......?"

"Hey, I saw this radio on the road, so I bought one and came back. Didn't expect ......"

The two looked at the radio in each other's hands, and suddenly felt like they couldn't cry or laugh.

"I'll return it tomorrow!" Kars said.

It's just that he didn't expect that his radio was not returned in the end, and was finally bought at a high price.

At the same time, in the marketing department of Carpenter Electronics, phone calls kept coming in one after another. Employees are busy, and their job is to reassure anxious sellers and make them wait patiently for the workers on the production line to produce the radios.

The employee picked up the phone and said, "I'm sorry, our company's radio is not available for the time being, please wait a few days." ”

As soon as I put the phone down, the ringtone rang again.

The employee explained to the customer on the phone, almost until his saliva was dry.

Seeing this situation, Old Joe hurriedly found Bart and asked him to find a way to solve the production capacity problem.

"We can't go on like this, we have to increase the production line! All the equipment and workers were used to produce radios. Old Joe said this, he knew that the longer it drags on, the more dissatisfied the customer will be.

Bart thought about it and agreed to Old Joe's method, he himself was not very good at management, so he had to leave it to others to take care of. Bart is now focusing on the development of new products, and he is in charge of the progress of the R&D department. At Alex's suggestion, he is now busy using transistors and integrated circuit boards in other appliances.

Old Joe is an old friend of Barth, and when he and Bart were in the factory, he was a lower-average manager. Since Old Joe is black, no matter how high his ability is, he can't go any further. When Bart asked Old Joe to do it with him, Old Joe immediately agreed.

With Bart behind him, Old Joe is thriving in Carpenter Electronics, almost the momentum of the number one. Only big things will be discussed with Bart, usually just talking, and Bart will not interfere too much with Old Joe's decision.

At first, some of the company's veterans were still unconvinced by Old Joe, and one or two of the white executives were very discriminatory against black people and deliberately found fault with Old Joe. Lao Qiao remained silent, and after getting familiar with the situation, he found the fault of these people and drove them all away in one go. Just as everyone was silent, he promoted a few people who sided with him to replace those who had been killed.

It wasn't until the people found out that Bart had listened to Joe's advice that they realized that they could either get out of the way or honestly cooperate with Joe's work. At this time, Lao Qiao offered another trick to appease people's hearts. It's just a month later, the people up and down this company have been managed by Lao Qiao.

Under the management of Lao Qiao, Carpenter Electronics Company is well organized, the production efficiency continues to improve, and the cost of products has also dropped again and again. Their company's radios were so popular that people in one state were snapping them up at first, then the whole country, and finally the whole world.

They have not been able to keep up, and other radio manufacturers have been pressuring Carpenter to release their patents or at least license them to produce them. Bart had no choice but to authorize other companies to produce the "Carpenter" radio.

At this time, they did not have a patent for the integrated circuit board, and other manufacturers also thought that they could circumvent this patent. However, neither Bart nor the others could expect that this one patent alone would be able to stop everyone. It can be said that without the invention of the integrated circuit board, there would be no later computer age, let alone a large number of cheap electronic products.

The integrated circuit board was originally not developed by Kilby until 1958, which only placed electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, and transistors on a semiconductor monolith, but it could greatly reduce the volume of the entire circuit and greatly reduce the cost of electronic products.

The invention of integrated circuits paved the way for the development of various functions of electronic products and opened a new era in the history of electronic technology. This is an invention that can change the world. Kilby won the Nobel Prize for just this invention.

Alex knows that the integrated circuit board he made is a very rudimentary thing, and it still has a lot of potential for development. Therefore, he asked Bart to concentrate manpower and material resources to explore the possibilities of integrated circuits, and pointed out several key points.

For example, the diffusion technique of silica and the isolation technique of PN junction are used to create aluminum strip wires on the oxide film. This enables the integration of components and wires into one, enabling the production of integrated circuit boards in large quantities for industry.

Originally, Alex could have made these by himself, he used to make circuit boards by himself when he was in college, he only used the simplest knife engraving method, but he also studied other plate making methods, such as paint plate making, mimeograph plate making and so on.

It's just that he thinks that if he does everything himself, what can he do with so much money. Isn't earning money just for enjoyment, and if you have money, you can hire people to do things. He simply wrote these things down and gave them to Bart for Bart to find someone to study.

"Money, it's a good thing!" Alex couldn't help but think to himself as he watched a group of staff members being instructed by him to turn around: "No wonder Jobs likes money so much, it turns out that after having money, you can let others do things according to your own ideas, and if the things you make are liked by the world, the glory can still be attributed to yourself." ”

Alex had always believed that Jobs was not a technician, but a wealthy businessman with ideas. Joe's gang leader just smashed his ideas out with money, and then sold what was smashed to other people, he relied on other talented people. In other words, Jobs paid for the time of talented employees to help him achieve his dreams.

Now Alex is doing such a thing, and a fool will do it himself. He's not idle, and he doesn't have anything to do. Alex is now busy writing books, studying and recording, so it's better not to bother him with these little things.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that Angel also thought that now that she was rich, she shouldn't let Alex work so hard to make money, and she wanted her sons to go to school. Go to elementary school, middle school, and college!