Author: Khurav

After writing the keyword "China Li-Ning" on the notepad, Carter's letter-reading journey continues!

In addition to letters from various industries reporting on work progress, letters from Douglas are particularly prominent.

"Carter! Did you know? Mr. Esterlich, the director of IBM's Personal PC Division, will call tomorrow and say that he wants to officially lead his engineers to visit Douglas! Needless to say, these people must be from your computer company

Attracted! Sure enough, discovering you was the luckiest thing in my life! The development path of integrating industry, education and research is not wrong! The construction of the Southern Georgia College Medical School has been basically completed and is in preparation."

Ignore what Benjamin said in his letter, whether it was medical school enrollment or hospital construction that was almost completed. At the same time that the news of IBM's Esterlich's visit was sent to Carter's desk, Goodman also had a letter on this issue:

"Benjamin told me today that people from IBM are coming to visit our factories and R&D centers. Now that you are not at home, I don't know how to handle this matter. The opinions of Dr. Ghoshal and Mr. Benjamin are that they are allowed to visit.

.It would be best to reach a cooperation with IBM. I know Mr. Benjamin wants to let IBM see that we have enough cheap and skilled electronic workers in Kofi Prison to receive production orders from IBM. It is best to put IBM's

The production line was introduced to Douglas.”

"I know there is nothing wrong with this idea, but I always feel a little uneasy. After all, they are our competitors. If they find out that we are using prisoners in prisons to produce computers, I am worried that they will spread bad news about us. But

, they all agree, and I don’t object very well. I will follow the whole process and observe the attitude of those people at IBM!”

"Early in the morning on July 16, the IBM man named Esterlich took people to Douglas. This is not good news. As far as I know, they came from Cabo Coton, Florida.

I remember when you had some friends, the fat man named Paul came to Douglas from there to find you. They all arrived at almost two o'clock in the afternoon. And these people actually came all the way through the starry night."

"The first stop was the ROG R&D center. The head of IBM chatted with Dr. Mosley for a long time. I couldn't quite understand their conversation, but several nouns and numbers were mentioned repeatedly. AT machine? 80286 IBM people seemed to

It's amazing what chips we can make a computer with."

"On the first day, they didn't leave Douglas. That should be good news, but the way I looked at them, they were definitely going to ask to tour the factory."

"We went to the factory today. The reaction from the people at IBM was a little strange. They didn't question the fact that we used prison inmates to work. They just asked to see our warehouse and then they seemed a little disappointed."

"On July 20, they finally left. Benjamin, this guy, wanted to keep them for a few more days. He was still dreaming about bringing IBM to Douglas. The investment promotion you told him a few years ago almost made him sad.

The devil is stunned.”

"IBM"

"storehouse."

Carter touched his chin, another confusing question appeared!

Moreover, IBMAT? New model?! It seems to be equipped with 80286 chip

"Rick, can you help me find any advertisements about IBM's new computer in these newspapers and periodicals?"

"Okay, what happened?"

Rick asked while rummaging around. Carter's answer was straightforward and he handed the letter directly to Rick.

"Is this 80286 chip special?"

After searching to no avail, Rick read the letter. Before he finished reading the letter, Rick noticed the key words in the words: 80286 chip!

"Yeah! Although this chip is an upgrade from the 8086, it may be because the performance has improved so drastically. As a result, the original motherboard with general specifications cannot control this chip at all!"

Carter nodded slightly:

"The reason why ROG's preparations have taken so long is largely because we are waiting for the new motherboard to be successfully developed. But now, it seems that IBM has also developed a motherboard with new specifications for the 80286 chip. Now

I have a bit of a headache!”

"Although I have confidence in ROG, the objective fact is that IBM is the talker in this field! Our popular and motherboard specifications actually comply with IBM rules! I was still thinking about whether I had a chance to pass 80286

After catching up with it, we actually released the product at the same time."

"The IBM rule you are talking about means that the circuit layout on the motherboard, slot location, size, depth, etc., must all follow IBM's standard template, right? And because of the 80286 chip, old motherboards in the past can't carry it.

It, so you think you can develop a new motherboard and set a new ROG standard by being the only computer that can run the 80286, a more powerful chip?"

After using his own understanding to translate Carter's words, Rick understood why Carter was embarrassed at this time.

"Yes! That's what I thought, and I even spent more than a million dollars on this. If I didn't spend money, the research and development progress would not be so fast. As a result, I have spent money and the product has been released.

.It turns out that IBM also has a similar product. I don’t think their specifications will be the same as ours!”

"So, if I switch to IBM specifications now, all my previous money will be wasted. This feeling will always make zero people a little unhappy. But if we don't change the rules, we will definitely be disadvantaged in terms of market supply!"

IBM, which is almost the vane of personal PCs in the U.S. market, has whatever specifications they produce. There is almost no need for them to send specifications to different parts manufacturers, or other brands of hardware manufacturers.

The most popular personal PC is from IBM. Who is the hardware manufacturer? If you want your own products to be sold, don't you have to produce accessories that adapt to IBM's size?

Only accessories like this are easy to sell! The market demand is huge!

One family is like this, two families are like this, and finally, the rules appear!

All standards are formulated by IBM!

And any company that can formulate industry standards. No, it should be said, if possible, who doesn’t want their company to formulate industry standards?!

In the past, in the XT specification era, Carter never had this opportunity!

Compare the tens of thousands of IBM XTs that are everywhere in the mountains. Oh no, if you don't follow the XT specifications, first of all, you won't be able to purchase suitable accessories, and you have to customize them or produce them yourself.

That cost cannot be reduced no matter how low it is!

In the same way, in the ROG TOP’s price of more than 30,000 US dollars, self-produced or customized supporting hardware are the culprits of soaring costs!

But in an era when there are no competitors, you can do this!

Expensive, but powerful!

No matter how expensive it is, someone will buy it!

Then there will be supporting hardware vendors to adapt to its size and then

All this happened as IBM also developed new products adapted to the 80286 chip and declared bankruptcy!
Chapter completed!