giants of the era

Chapter 294 America Online
The United States attempted to depreciate the U.S. dollar by signing the "Plaza Accord" to resolve its foreign trade deficit, but in fact, for a long period of time after the "Plaza Accord", Japan's trade surplus with the United States not only did not decrease, but increased significantly.Some experts believe that the sharp appreciation of the yen provides a good opportunity for Japanese companies to go global and conduct large-scale overseas expansion.

By mid-November, the U.S. dollar depreciated by more than 11%, and the Japanese yen appreciated sharply, making Japanese entrepreneurs very arrogant, waving checks to "buy, buy, buy"!
Japanese businessmen appeared in Hawaii, New York, Los Angeles and many other places in the United States, and they bought a lot of land and buildings.

In his previous life, Li Zetian only heard that the Japanese were crazy in the 90s and even threatened to buy the United States. Now that he can experience this era and experience it personally, he can't help but be dumbfounded!

The Japanese are so rich that even Li Zetian feels ashamed.

On November 11th, Dongfang Yuqin returned from vacation and started working.With her here, Li Zetian was much more relaxed.

After more than a year of construction, the preliminary construction of NSFNet network has been completed. The backbone communication line has a data transmission speed of 56kb/s, connecting the six supercomputer centers in the United States and a large number of colleges and universities to realize information sharing.

At this time, Galaxy Networks launched the Galaxy-Model, which can transmit data at 2400bit/s, crushing other current modems and becoming a hit in the industry.

Sprint company began to provide network access services.

In addition, the nationwide digital optical fiber network that Sprint Company is building is also connected with the NSFNet network to form a larger network.Of course, the management rights of the two networks belong to each other. NSFNet is biased toward academic research, and Sprint's nationwide digital optical network is biased towards business.

A magnificent picture scroll has begun to unfold slowly!
Li Zetian is not the only genius in this world, there are also people who see the development potential of the Internet and are actively involved in it.

In mid-November, when Li Zetian was learning about the development of 11-bit personal computers at Mango Computer Company, he happened to meet this person.

"Mr. Li, I am very surprised to meet you here. I am Steve Case, the founder of America Online!"

America Online! ! !

Li Zetian heard the words, his heart moved, and he couldn't help looking at the other party, "He is the founder of America Online, so young, only 26 or seven years old?"

Before the Internet bubble burst, AOL was very powerful, but in just a dozen years, the total capital of AOL has reached 1640 billion U.S. dollars, with a revenue of 1999 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year 48, a profit of 7.62 million U.S. dollars, and 12100 employees. The world's largest online service company is also the world's most famous e-commerce platform, and its instant online paging product ICQ dominates the United States.It can be said that AOL is the most famous Internet company representing the "new economy" of the United States, and its market value was equivalent to twice that of the computer giant IBM at that time!
America Online appears to be a formidable competitor.

"Oh, hello, Mr. Steve Case! May I ask why you are here at Mango Company?" Li Zetian asked.

"That's right, our America Online company has developed an online service system, and I hope it can be installed on Mango computers!"

At this time, the CEO of Mango Computer whispered to Li Zetian: "Mr. Li, this guy comes here almost every day. It seems that if we don't install their online service system, he may not give up!"

Li Zetian nodded, expressing his understanding, and turned to look at Steve Case, thinking how many computer companies this guy has been to, and he is also stalking like this?

"Hello, Mr. Keith, first of all, I would like to know about the strength of your company. After all, Mango Computer Company is a big brand company, and the companies we cooperate with are all very powerful, so as to ensure that consumers like our products!" Li Zetian asked lightly.

Hearing this, Steve Case was a little embarrassed, but he quickly covered it up.

"Mr. Li, don't worry, although AOL is a new start-up company, our company is also very powerful!"

Li Zetian smiled and said, "Well, then you go back first, I will send someone to your company to have a look at it later, and then think about it."

"Mr. Li, why don't you take a look at our company's software first!" Steve Case hurriedly promoted.

"Don't worry, you can watch it later! I'm very busy now, don't worry, I will send someone to your company!"

"Alright then!" Steve Case sighed inwardly.

As soon as Steve Case left, Li Zetian said to Dongfang Yuqin beside him, "Send someone to investigate America Online, and ask for details!"

"Yes!"

Right now, the online service market is not dynamic at all, but AOL can focus on this market, so it is no wonder that it will be successful in the future!
Afterwards, Li Zetian turned his head to look at the CEO of Mango Computer Company, and inquired about the development of the 32-bit personal computer.

On January 1 this year, Intel Corporation released the 1-bit Intel 32 chip, and Mango Computer Company began to develop a 80386-bit personal computer. It took 32 months, and the development must be successful soon.

Once the 32-bit personal computer is released, it is bound to overwhelm the 16-bit personal computer and become the current mainstream. The Compaq Computer Company in the previous life became an industry giant because it was the first to eat crabs!
"Four-fifths of the development progress has been completed, and it should be available for sale globally in April next year!" said the CEO of Mango Computer, "The operating system will use Microsoft's third-generation operating system, Windows 4."

"Take me to the lab to have a look."

"Okay, Mr. Li, please follow me."

After a while, Li Zetian and others came to a laboratory and saw the 32-bit personal computer under development.

In terms of appearance, it is similar to the current mainstream computers, and it looks bloated.

Li Zetian took a closer look and felt that the reason why the desktop computer was bloated was mainly because the hard disk was too big.

Right now, the size of the floppy disk has been reduced to 3.5 inches, which is okay, and it will remain like this in the future until it is replaced by a USB flash drive.However, the hard disk is 5.25 inches, which is very large. Li Zetian only noticed this problem at this time.

Didn't Seagate develop magnetoresistive technology?

Although Li Zetian doesn't know much about hard drives, he also knows that magnetic resistance technology is the key to hard drives.

In fact, in the late 80s, IBM introduced MR (Magneto Resistive) technology, which greatly improved the sensitivity of the magnetic head and increased the storage density of the disk by dozens of times compared with the previous 20Mbps (bit/square inch). The huge increase in hard disk capacity laid the foundation. In 1991, IBM introduced the first 3.5-inch 1GB hard drive using this technology.Later, IBM introduced GMR giant magnetoresistance technology, which further improved the sensitivity of the magnetic head, thereby increasing the storage density.After that, almost all hard drives use GMR giant magnetoresistance technology.

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