Ari thought for a while and said: "The main thing is the price! An Apple III costs US$3,495, and a Commodore 64 computer costs about US$600. The price is much more affordable. In the past, there were few computer brands and customers had few choices. Nowadays, computer brands

If there are more, customers will have more choices, and Apple II will gradually lose its appeal."

Bai Zirui and Zhou Jiayi stayed in Ai Rui's store all morning. About two hours later, Jamie, another partner who ran the store with Ai Rui, came back to purchase goods. Compared with Ai Rui, who was good at talking and was good at talking, Jamie

He is a technical geek and talked with Bai Zirui about a lot of professional computer topics.

Ari's store is doing very well. They sold twenty computers of various models throughout the morning, as well as floppy disk drives, magnetic cartridge drives, floppy disks, storage tapes and other accessories.

On the way Bai Zirui and Zhou Jiayi took the car back to the hotel where they were staying, Zhou Jiayi asked: "Bai Sheng, are we inspecting the market for the computer our company will launch next?"

Bai Zirui said with some emotion: "Of course, the data on paper cannot fully reflect the vitality of this industry. Only by walking into such a computer store in person can we deeply understand that a personal computer wave has quietly arrived.

Around each of us.

This computer store alone can sell more than 20 personal computers every day, and Computer Park has 387 franchise stores in the beautiful country, and 167 stores in Canada, Kangaroo Country and other places.

In other words, Computer Park alone, a computer seller, sells one million personal computers every year! Who can say that personal computers are just toys for computer enthusiasts? This is a rapidly rising market!"

The rise of an emerging industry may take a long time, but when the industrial technology matures and begins to become popular, the speed will be incredibly fast.

In 1904, British physicist and electrical engineer Fleming invented the world's first electron tube, leading mankind into the electronic age. In 1947, the invention was hailed as "the most important invention of the twentieth century"

The transistor was invented at Bell Labs.

As scientific researchers continue to specialize in research in the electronic technology industry, while the industry is becoming larger and larger, it has begun to affect all aspects of people's lives.

Bai Zirui said: "This is when the company's publicity department plays its role, not only to promote personal computers, but also to popularize relevant computer knowledge. This will be a long-term process. We still have to target overseas markets when launching Dingtian Computer.

Especially the beautiful market.”

Bai Zirui said with emotion: "Yes! The beautiful country has become the world's science and technology center after World War II. Many new technologies and new products were born in the beautiful country, so the beautiful people accept new things very quickly.

Zhou Jiayi asked in surprise: "Bai Sheng, do you want to acquire Computer Park Company?"

William Millard was a college student who dropped out of school without formal scientific training. He was employed by Pacific Finance Company in his early years. Due to his extensive computer skills at work, he received several promotions, but when he was further promoted,

Hampered by his lack of formal academic qualifications, he left Pacific Finance to work as director of data processing in Alahida, California.

From another perspective, it is precisely because almost no one uses personal computers in Xiangjiang that it shows that Xiangjiang contains a vast market, which is a good opportunity for Dingtian Computer to occupy the market."

In 1958, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments demonstrated the world's first integrated circuit. Based on this, Robert Noins improved and invented a commercially produced silicon integrated circuit. The semiconductor industry entered the "Age of Invention".

"Business Era".

Although Bai Zirui only inspected one store in the Computer Park in the morning, he could get a glimpse of it. Computer Park sells about one million personal computers every year. So what is the capacity of the entire market? It must be much larger!

In the business history of the beautiful country, William Millard is a very special figure, because few people like him accumulated so much money in such a short period of time, but lost so much money so quickly.

Zhou Jiayi is indeed very capable at work. On the third day, she helped Bai Zirui make an appointment with William Millard, the founder of Computer Park Company, and even helped him prepare a copy of William Millard's personal information.

With the rapid development of personal computers, many people have not yet realized that they will be eliminated by emerging industries.

At present, personal computers are still looked down upon by those mainframe manufacturers. They have never seriously understood personal computers. They do not know that the personal computer market is rapidly expanding and will soon become the largest computer category market.

Zhou Jiayi said: "Bai Sheng, what should we do next?"

This in itself is a very good investment. The market size of personal computers will become larger and larger, so the market value of such microcomputer specialty stores for end customers will definitely skyrocket."

By 1982, the electronic technology industry had developed for seventy-nine years. It was like a volcano about to erupt. It had accumulated enough energy and it was time to burst out its industry charm.

Zhou Jiayi said: "The citizens of Xiangjiang don't have much idea about personal computers. How can a company sell computers to them?"

Zhou Jiayi thought for a while and said: "Bai Sheng, personal computers are very different from arcade machines. The company's previous dealers are not suitable for selling computers."

However, in Hong Kong, personal computers have almost no influence. Except for universities and some enterprises, many ordinary citizens do not know about personal computers.

Bai Zirui said: "Of course, help me make an appointment with the boss of Computer Park Company. I want to talk to him about the acquisition."

Bai Zirui said: "I know this very well, so let's go and inspect the computer park store today?"

Just like in later generations, no one thought that the Internet industry could develop so rapidly. Before people fully understood it, it had already become popular. Many people even thought that this kind of virtual network was a new type of fraud.

Zhou Jiayi asked: "Bai Sheng, has personal computers become popular in beautiful countries?"

You must know that Computer Park is not yet a giant in the entire computer sales terminal, and is still in the initial stage of development.

Bai Zirui said: "That's right! The acquisition of the computer park will soon open the market for our Dingtian computers in beautiful countries, Canada, and kangaroo countries.

Four years later, he left the company and went to San Francisco as chief data processing engineer. He once again demonstrated his talent, simplifying the operation of government agencies and improving work efficiency.

Although he worked in the government sector with a good and secure salary, Millard was determined to succeed in his career since he was a child. He quit his job in the government sector and founded System Dynamics in 1971, mainly selling computers compatible with IBM products.

Communications Terminal, but went bankrupt the next year.

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