Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 13 Chinese Typewriters

Under Ni Annan's insistence, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences did not copy Zhao Ye's Chinese card, but the idea of ​​developing the Chinese card was clearer, which led to a significant increase in the development progress of the project.

The Computing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences may soon enter the Hanka market, but these are all within Zhao Ye's expectations.

Zhao Ye has plenty of means to compete with the other party in the market.

If you want to say what advantage the opponent has, it is probably the identity of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

But it doesn't matter, Zhao Ye doesn't have to monopolize the Chinese card market, and he can't monopolize it at all, as long as he can get a share of it, that's enough.

Hanka is just Zhao Ye's first pot of gold.

If he really wants to rise, he still has to look at his next development project, which is a Chinese word processor, also known as a Chinese typewriter.

There are data from previous lives to prove that from the end of 1988 to the beginning of 1989, the Science and Technology Daily ranked the national electronics industry. In the sales ranking, Stone Company, which makes word processors, ranked No. 10 with 1 billion. through the back.Lenovo had only 8000 million sales at that time.At that time, 70% of the tax revenue of Zhongguancun Electronics Street was contributed by Stone.Stone is known as the No. [-] IT company in Zhongguancun, and it is indeed well deserved.

Of course, Stone Group miscalculated the development of the personal computer market, just like Wang An Company in the United States, thinking that word processors would continue to be popular, and the result can be imagined.

Both of them made word processors, Wang An Computer Company made Wang An the richest man in Chinese, and Stone became the number one IT company in Zhongguancun.

Fate is impermanent, it is embarrassing!
Zhao Ye was sitting in the office, resting his chin on his hand, thinking about the development plan of a Chinese typewriter.

The earliest electronic printers were computer-driven ASCII character printers, which could only print fixed-size Western letters and numbers, and could not print graphics and Chinese characters.Later, a printer with 24 columns and 2 rows of firing pins appeared on a 12 square millimeter print head. The computer drives the 24 firing pins to the ribbon to print any graphics. Naturally, these 24 dots can be used. All Chinese characters can be combined by arranging up, down, left, and right, and the font size can also be changed, so printers with this technology are called 24-dot matrix printers.

It is based on the 24-dot matrix printing technology that the Chinese typewriter can be developed.

For the processor chip of the Chinese typewriter, Zhao Ye chose to use the Z80 microprocessor. The Z80 isn't just cheap, it's powerful.There are a lot of uses and applications ranging from household appliances, Nintendo's FC red and white game consoles, to industrial acquisition systems, automatic control devices, motors and transmissions.Various large and medium-sized colleges and universities have also opened courses on Z80 microprocessors. The research and application of Z80 microprocessors and Z80 single-board computers have a broad foundation in China.

Zhao Ye's plan is to develop a Chinese typewriter that can display 4 lines on the LCD screen, and not only can print Chinese characters on A4 white paper, but also can print A3 stencil paper, which is convenient for mimeographing.

Zhao Ye believes that the birth of this Chinese typewriter will definitely make Chinese word processing bid farewell to the era of type printing and hand-engraved stencils, and step into the era of electronic information processing! ! !
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In the next few days, Zhao Ye went to the market to do some research while working on the product development plan.

He originally planned that if the hardware part he needed was available on the market, he would just buy it directly, which would speed up the development of Chinese typewriters.

But Zhao Ye soon gave up this plan.

Because he found that most of the hardware needs to be imported from RB, but the hardware sold by the RB people is too expensive. In the end, even if it is a Chinese typewriter, he does not earn much, but the RB people make a lot of money. .

Therefore, Zhao Ye decided to develop a complete set of word processors by himself, making both software and hardware by himself, completely getting rid of the technical control of RB people.

"After Hanka becomes famous, I will directly recruit talents on the "Computer World" newspaper, and all the recruited talents will directly join the Chinese typewriter project!" Zhao Ye murmured.

He could indeed develop a Chinese typewriter by himself, but it took a long time.

Personal power is not as powerful as the power of a team.

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At 1:[-] in the afternoon, Zhao Ye returned to the company from the outside. As soon as he walked in, he heard Fu Xiaoyue say: "Boss, you are finally back! Mr. Zhou Zian, the editor-in-chief of "Computer World", called you just now , you’re not here, so I can’t contact you, so I can only wait for you to come back. Editor Zhou said, when you come back, call him back immediately!”

"Ok!"

Zhao Ye walked to Fu Xiaoyue's desk, flipped through the phone book, found the phone number of Zhou Zian's office, and dialed it.

The call was quickly connected.

"Editor Zhou, hello, I'm Zhao Ye from Imagination Technology Company. I'm sorry, I wasn't in the company when you called earlier. Is there anything important you need to ask me?"

"Boss Zhao, according to our newspaper's analysis of readers' feedback, I think it's time to publish the advertisement of "Imagination Chinese Card" to the outside world. If it takes too long, the popularity will decrease. "Zhou Zian suggested.

"Well, then I will publish this sentence in the newspaper tomorrow: 'Imagine-Hanka, an epoch-making breakthrough!!!'" Zhao Ye responded with a nod of kindness when he heard the words.

This sentence is enough to remind people of the sentence "humanity has lost its imagination, what will happen to the future".

Imagine means "imagination". People who can afford computers in this era are of relatively high quality, and most of them can understand English.

Just imagine, computers at this time do not support Chinese, and there are no computer games to play. If you can’t read English, there is basically no need to buy a computer.

Zhao Ye originally planned to create suspense for a month, but there is no need to be stubborn and rigid. In business, you must be flexible and make timely adjustments according to the actual situation.

"This sentence should also be published on the full page. It will be published for a week first, and then the picture of Imagine-Hanka will be placed, and the functions of Hanka will be introduced in detail!"

At present, few people know Hanka.

Therefore, the sentence "Imagine-Hanka, an epoch-making breakthrough" is a suspense, but it continues the previous sentence, letting people know that Imagine-Hanka is a product, which in turn arouses readers' strong curiosity.

One week is Zhao Ye's estimated fermentation time, after which Hanka should explode in the computer circle.

Hearing this, Zhou Zian was very impressed with Zhao Ye's arrangement, and immediately agreed, and then discussed some details. For example, this new advertisement can include the address of Imagination Technology Company in the newspaper, which is convenient for some people. Come to consult and discuss cooperation.

After finishing the conversation, Zhao Ye frowned slightly. He would go out frequently, and if the company had important matters but could not contact him, it would be troublesome.

"Motorola mobile phones, that is, the 'big brother' that is often mentioned in Hong Kong film and television dramas... It seems that it has not entered the Chinese market at this time, and it will wait until 1987. Right now, BB phones should enter the Chinese market, and Zhongguancun must be There is someone who sells this thing, I will buy one now, so as not to be unable to contact me in case of something."

Zhao Ye greeted Fu Xiaoyue, said that he had something to do outside, and left the company again.

Walking on the road, Zhao Ye couldn't help feeling that there are business opportunities everywhere in this era, such as the BB machine that he is going to buy now, but anyone who invests in building a factory to produce BB machines at this time can make a lot of money...

(End of this chapter)