Rebirth of Hong Kong’s Glorious Era - Chapter 66

After Li Wansui crossed over, he had never seen game consoles in this world. His previous judgment on the game industry was based on the configuration of his computer at that time to guess what the development of game consoles was.

Since he came up with a plan to create a god, he has made plans for film and television, and his mind has been focused on his previous career, the computer industry, and he deliberately has a good understanding of the current computer market.

He was familiar with Dell’s road to fame and wanted to replicate Dell’s path.

Dell Computer is a famous PC manufacturer in its previous life. In 1997, founder Michael Dell was worth more than $20 billion.

In 2001, Dell became the world’s largest PC manufacturer. Before the development of the Chinese army, it was basically invincible all over the world.

Li Wansui wanted to replicate Michael Dell’s road to fame, because this road required very little capital, and Dell’s road to fame, when Li Wansui went to college, the school teacher, in order to encourage students to start a business, specifically talked about Dell’s The history of struggle, Li Wansui is very impressed.

He was young and he was not in the same university, and occasionally said that their school also talked about the history of Dell’s struggle. Li Wansui was very surprised, and privately speculated why many universities talked about Dell’s experience to encourage college students.

Li Wansui wanted to come. In those few years, Dell was at its peak and had a great influence. Moreover, his experience is very legendary, a model of self-made, and he started a business at a very young age, which can play a role in motivating students.

Michael Dell was born in 1965 into a middle-class family in Houston, USA. At the age of 12, Dale Jr. advertised in a philatelic magazine as a stamp business, earning $2,000 and using the money to buy his first personal computer. This experience made Dell realize the benefits of doing business without middlemen. Not long after, he couldn’t hold back the urge to be curious and took apart his computer to try to figure out how it worked. At the age of 16, when he was in middle school, Michael found a job – getting subscribers for the Houston “Post”. He imagined that newlyweds would be the best subscribers to the newspaper, so he hired a classmate to transcribe the name and address of the newly licensed person. He typed this information into a computer, sent a distinctive letter to the newlyweds, and gave each couple a free two-week copy of The Post, and he was a big hit, earning $18,000 and buying a a BMW car. After graduating from high school, Dell followed his parents’ orders to study medicine at the University of Texas at Austin. In the second year of the university, he dropped out because he was too obsessed with computers and determined to make achievements in the field of PCs.

While playing with computers, Dell found that, on the one hand, some local computer wholesalers took over the PCs that could not be sold in time, and on the other hand, users could not get the computers they wanted to configure. So Dell went to a wholesaler and bought back the backlog of PCs at wholesale prices, added features like more memory and disk drives to the machines, and put a small, one-page print in the local paper. Paper ads selling these computers for 10 to 15 percent below the retail price.

On January 2, 1984, Dell incorporated “PC Ltd.”. In the beginning, Dell advertised in local newspapers to sell off-the-shelf assembled machines with its own name (Dell) to users, earning $50,000 to $80,000 a month. In May, the first-year course exams were completed, and “Dell Computer Company” was established with a registered capital of $1,000. Since then, the company has grown all the way, and in 1986, Dell’s annual revenue has reached 60 million US dollars.

Li Wansui originally had little insight and no ideas because he knew very little about this era. Because he was a programmer in his previous life, he is also interested in electronic equipment, and he is very familiar with the paths of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Dell who are rising or are about to rise in this era.

Among them, Microsoft’s road is obviously supported by ibm, and Bill Gates is not what those who are in the media in later generations said, but a representative of college dropouts who started from scratch. Her mother, Mary Gates, is a high-level ibm person with a big identity. Without her mother, the world’s richest man would not be Microsoft.

Later, Li Wansui deliberately Baidu.

Big Blue’s IBM company decided to engage in the development of personal computers. Although IBM is very powerful, to complete this development, software cooperation is still required. So I called Bill, which aroused Bill’s great interest. Interestingly, when Bill came to IBM with the feasibility report, he realized he forgot to wear his tie. Time was running out, and he had to drive the rented car into a department store parking lot and hurriedly bought one.

Throughout the day of the interview, Bill answered numerous questions from the IBM design team. Although Gates is confident about signing the contract, he is not without apprehension. Will IBM executives value little Microsoft? Unexpectedly, the new chairman of IBM was a friend of Bill’s mother, and he asked the secretary:

“Is this Microsoft the company of Mary Gates’ son?”

“Yes.”

The chairman found Mary: “Your son only went to college for two years, what can he do?”

Mary smiled and said, “This time, I use my achievements and personality to make the best guarantee for my beloved son.”

Bill finally developed the first-generation PC for IBM. Microsoft DOS has also become the only standard in the industry.

Li Wansui knew that Bill’s mother had already guaranteed her personality, and knew that Microsoft would not be able to go this route. But like other Transmigration predecessors developing operating systems, I’m sorry, Li Wansui knew in his heart that he didn’t have that level.

Some of the time-travel seniors invested in Apple, but Li Wansui couldn’t do it. Now Apple launched the Apple 2 computer, which is a big boss in the computer industry. The Apple 2 computer is a big sale. Apple is not short of money. Holding 120 million Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to 200000 to 30 million US dollars, I want to buy Apple shares. It is estimated that Jobs will never see him. The fools on Wall Street know that Apple has a great future. Apple is short of money, and these investment banks are competing like sharks. How could little Li Wansui be given the slightest chance.

Dell’s way is best to copy. Li Wansui was also very interested at first, and specially invited Tang Shi, the owner of the computer store, to ask him about the backlog of inventory at the wholesaler.

As a result, Tang Shi’s answer~www.mtlnovel.com~ made Li Wansui disheartened and shouted in pain, “It’s too early to travel, heroes are useless, Dell, founded by Michael Dell in 1984, started out with income. Inventory of assembled machines or off-brand machines is only 79 years old now.”

Tang said at the appropriate time: “Ah Sui, I don’t know where you heard that there is an assembled machine, I have never heard a similar statement. I assure you, Apple is a real computer company on the market, don’t The so-called personal computers produced by our company are all outdated goods, as for the stockpiles, I will tell you no, what industry’s most advanced things have you seen that can be called stockpiles?”

Li Wansui was greatly disappointed, and this step was also unsuccessful.

Later, he even thought about whether to create a computer company to compete with Apple after he got the money, but this road is too difficult, the question before him is where to make the motherboard?

The success of the Apple 2, in addition to its advanced configuration, is largely due to the manufacture of a new motherboard, which integrates advanced things on the market, can emit sound, integrates a sound card, and a color display, which proves that the video interface is also added. Also expanded the number of memory sockets, and other new functions, at the same time through the integration of the motherboard.

This new motherboard was developed by Apple itself.

Li Wansui obviously doesn’t know how to develop hardware. When Michael Dell started his business in 1984, he didn’t need to make new motherboards. At that time, there were many brands of computers on the market. Dell just bought back the stock, pieced it together, and then OEM, and it was a success. .

The way forward Li Wansui envisioned is broken. Although he is very busy these days, he has to think about the future in his spare time. He doesn’t know much about other industries, so he can only investigate slowly. Now he sees the signboard of tv-game, where is it I won’t go to investigate, maybe I will gain a lot.