The construction of the factory area is going on day by day. By the time the factory building here is completed, the production line in the capital has also been completed.
The first batch of workers were selected from thousands of people. These workers, together with some skilled workers from the south of the town, formed the printer production team.
When the production line is installed and debugged, the training of workers has already begun.
Workers at this time were actually tired of their previous life and were eager to return to normal life and work. Therefore, after getting this job, their enthusiasm for learning was extremely high.
Especially after hearing the descriptions of the workers in Zhennan, these people became even more excited about their future life.
It was in this atmosphere that the printer entered the trial production stage. When the first batch of equipment came off the production line, everyone present was so excited that they couldn't help themselves.
With the end of trial production, the production line was appropriately adjusted. Then it was turned on at full capacity and vigorously produced.
Zhao Ye is busy with production here. Apple Company in the United States, Santai Company in Neon Country, plus some channels from our partner countries in Europe, jointly released such a new printer.
Something surprising happened. When everyone was full of hope and wanted to see how big a stir this epoch-making product would cause, the response from the market was extremely dull. It can almost be said that it did not stir up much.
The waves are coming.
Zhao Ye didn't know about this situation yet, but people from overseas asset management companies became anxious first.
Everyone has placed such great hopes on it, but who would have thought that it would not be recognized by the market, which makes people feel embarrassed and anxious.
When Zhao Ye learned the news, he was embarrassed for a moment. Then he quickly strengthened his mental construction.
How could such a product not be popular?
After Zhao Ye thought briefly, he thought of several possibilities.
First of all, there may be a problem with product promotion. Inkjet printers are not a new thing. Such products have been around for a long time. However, there are currently no popular printers in the world produced by Zhao Ye and others.
It’s easy to use. In addition, for Chinese people at this time, selling things basically means putting the goods on the counter and pulling them down. Whether to buy or not is entirely up to the customer’s "volunteer". Selling? Pull it down, we salespersons are a "noble" profession, why?
Maybe you have to go to the streets to find people to introduce you? Wouldn’t that be too embarrassing? So it’s probably an overseas asset management company that didn’t do a good job in sales promotion.
Another reason is that computers used with printers are not yet widely available. Therefore, it is almost rare for individuals to buy printers. In response to this situation, Zhao Ye and others want to sell printers, and their target customers are only
Some of the institutions that use computers most frequently.
For example, banks and governments.
After Zhao Ye reflected his opinion, the people at the overseas asset management company immediately adjusted their strategies. Not only did they spend a lot of money to publicize it in newspapers and other media, but they also sent representatives to specific target users.
Go to door-to-door sales.
All of a sudden, the Western market seemed to be slowly opening the floodgates, and the number of orders began to increase little by little.
But it's not enough. At least in Zhao Ye's view, this sales performance is completely inadequate.
But people from overseas companies didn't think so. After the order quantity reached their psychological expectations, the entire company held a celebration party.
Zhao Ye sat in the newly completed new factory building and lit a cigarette silently without smoking. He just held it and watched the smoke rising from the birds.
In Zhao Ye's opinion, the biggest obstacle why ordinary people or ordinary companies do not accept printers is that personal computers do not yet exist. So should he launch personal computers at this time?
Launching such a product at this time point also has advantages and disadvantages. I won’t talk about the advantages, but there are also disadvantages. At this time, the biggest obstacle Zhao Ye currently faces is the current international environment.
It is not as open as later generations. This lack of openness not only refers to our openness to the outside world, but also to the openness of foreign countries to us.
The public, especially the foreign public, has a big problem in recognizing such a strange product in such a strange country. Although Zhao Ye founded Apple in the United States, he had no intention of turning this company into a new one.
"Dress" as a United States corporation.
Zhao Ye thought for a long time and finally made the decision to launch a small computer.
For this small computer, Zhao Ye's plan is to call it something like a document manager in terms of function and promotion.
It’s called a computer. Many people don’t know what this thing can do. It’s not that the public doesn’t know that there is a thing called a computer, but in terms of people’s current understanding and use, there is no concept of personal use of computers. It’s called a document editor.
Everyone is much clearer now. At least they know what this is for.
Of course, learning from the successful example of Xiaobawang back then, it is also necessary to integrate a card reader for game cards on the chassis. Regardless of whether the user plays games or not, if you provide one more function, you can always win more users.
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Zhao Ye made his decision and took action immediately.
They have the technology, but the key is how to use the technology and what technologies to use.
In this day and age, personal computers cannot advocate and pursue the familiar parameters of later generations. Because users simply do not understand this, have no relevant experience in using it, and have no similar products to compare with. At this time, computers or documents
For things like editors, we should focus more on its usage functions. For example, the office software that has been widely spread in later generations.
The more Zhao Ye thought about it, the more it made sense, so in the design of the first personal computer, Zhao Ye marked this function.
Then there is fax technology.
Starting four or five years ago, the United States and other countries have successively opened fax services on public telephone systems. Therefore, fax machines are a fashionable product in this era. How can your own computer use such a network service? Zhao
Ye also recorded this item in his notebook.
Then there is the integration of game consoles, plus floppy drives, keyboards and mice, and monitors. A new type of personal computer product was born in Zhao Ye's mind.
The processor uses a processing chip similar to that of the original game console, but the design has been modified accordingly. The memory and graphics card basically copy the configuration of the game console, which also helps this computer to be compatible with the cartridges of the game console.
The hardware part is easy to solve, and then comes the software part. The operating system has a previously designed version, and basically there is no need to make major changes. Just put the fonts of various countries into it. The real difficulty is the design of office software.
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Zhao Ye is very clear about what functions this kind of software requires. Just like now, Zhao Ye is writing project development documents in the system space while looking at the old word and excel.
The computer configurations of later generations are not comparable to this era. Therefore, Zhao Ye must make large-scale deletions in the original functions. Only retain some of the most basic functions. Of course, in order to be more attractive, some simple
Charts are still needed.
Software development is based on hardware. What kind of hardware there is is the upper limit of the corresponding software function. In order to develop this software, Zhao Ye created a computer in the system space, and then used it on this computer.
, run the software developed by yourself using the system.
The result failed!
System space is not omnipotent. Regarding software, the system is indeed a bit useless. However, this is not a problem for Zhao Ye. It is just adding people and machines. The new factory may be lacking in this aspect, so it is really
There is no shortage of it.
Shuimu University and Jingcheng University have a lot of software development experience, which can be used as a reference. So Zhao Ye sent an official letter, and a support team of 20 or 30 people came over a few days later.
Combined with the strength of the software engineers in Zhennan and some locally recruited talents, a software team of nearly a hundred people was formed.
After the personnel arrived, the computer was not a problem. After Zhao Ye sent the project documents, he basically stopped caring about the matters here. These people in the past were all familiar with the related work, so Zhao Ye did not need to worry too much.
What Zhao Ye really cares about is how to produce the first personal computer.
In the new factory, the relevant equipment is not complete. Many things must be supplied from other places. For example, there is basically no large-scale production capacity here for chips. In addition, there are monitors, and the output in Zhennan is
It's really a problem. After these accidents, there is no production capacity here for various types of chips, memories, etc. used in computers.
This has caused Zhao Ye's current difficulties. At this time, it is no longer small-batch production. But if you want to expand the scale, you must obtain the consent of your superiors, so that you can arrange production tasks for each supporting factory.
But among other things, the current production tasks of the joint factory in Beijing are almost saturated, and it is almost impossible to increase production capacity.
As for Zhennan, there are some talents, but due to the land area, the factory there is really not big, and the production capacity is also very limited. Not only is it limited, but it is also ramping up production there, let's talk about monitors.
Nowadays, there are almost three shifts there. Even so, the products are still in short supply.
Can't we expand production?
Zhao Ye really didn't dare to let others do this. Back then, their production plant was moved from Jinling. It is conceivable that at present, there is almost no company in the mainland that can produce qualified products.
The monitor comes.
It's not that there is no technology, the key is that the factory's state is not a normal state. In such a state, it is really difficult to organize production effectively.
Is it possible to move the display factory back? Zhao Ye couldn't help but be a little undecided.