In an environment like the United States, the activity energy of large enterprises such as IBM often exceeds the cognition of outsiders. This is also a main reason why Gao Xian is willing to sell Huanyu personal computers to IBM - he has a lot of cash and stocks to take, and can break into the existing system and borrow all kinds of strength. Why not!
Take the situation of the United States and the Soviet Union doing business while the cold war. In 1974, the Nikko Songzheng government, which had not collapsed because of the Watergate incident, relaxed its export policy of computer products to the Soviet Union. Of course, there is a limitation, that is, the data processing capacity does not exceed 32 million bits per second. IBM soon negotiated two deals with the Soviet Union, one is to provide the production process control and management computer system for the kamas truck factory, and the other is to provide the Soviet international travel agency with a reservation system that can be used for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games.
Therefore, once little Watson is persuaded, he has a very strong foundation to take action. After moving the high string, he can easily stand aside and watch the excitement.
When he went to the Soviet Union this time, Gao Xian suggested that Charles Tandy should follow. After all, the specific work should be implemented by the other party, and this also belongs to the scope of his own work, so he doesn't have to bother to take over.
Many people, for little Watson, it was nothing at all. All the formalities were easily completed. Everyone came to Moscow, where the Olympic Games were about to open.
After entering the 1970s, the computer development level of the Soviet Union began to fall behind the developed capitalist countries in the west, especially the United States. Moreover, the development strategy of the Soviet Union also changed, basically giving up independent research and development and turning into "taking doctrine", and following the successful ideas of the West, such as referring to IBM's large-scale computer system system360.
As for the burgeoning personal computers, the officials and experts who led the development of computers in the Soviet Union did not even know that computers could popularize the concept of individuals, which had a very intuitive feeling in the process of Gao Xian's contact with the Ministry of radio technology and industry of the Soviet Union.
In the Soviet Union, the Ministry of radio technology and industry of the Soviet Union is an ally in charge of the research and production of televisions, radios, tape recorders, computers, radio instruments and other electronic equipment. To put it bluntly, because the Soviet Union has a planned economic system, people are the parents who represent all attitudes.
The high string, which intends to hide its clumsiness, has always let Charles Tang Di top in front and be a quiet consultant next to him.
Charles downy, a shrewd businessman who can do sales, couldn't stand the cognitive gap between the two sides. Finally, he simply put forward the only prototype he brought.
This eight person IBM-PC is the product that Zhou Wenyao's team showed Charles Tangdi. After "optimization and integration", the chip integration is very high, the calorific value is greatly reduced, and it is very quiet when working. At the software level, it remains fully compatible from the operating system to the application program.
Charles downy gushed: "our powerful and elegant personal computers can not only help office personnel process words and calculation data, but also enter schools in large numbers with the advantage of easy popularization, so as to let more students contact computers and cultivate more computer talents."
"As far as I know, in the ninth five-year plan formulated by the Soviet Union, the total base number of computer installations will be increased by 2.5 times to 25000 by 1975."
"I don't know how this goal has been achieved, but I know that the numbers in this goal have no pressure on our personal computers."
The Soviets' development of computers basically remained in the original idea of meeting the needs of military and science and technology. Charles Tandy's words made them sound very fresh, so that in the process of interaction, they began to mention very specific use problems. For example, the use interface was all English.
Charles Dundee timely showed greater sincerity, "we are already doing language localization, and you are welcome to join us."
After the Soviets recognized the value of personal computers, Gao Xian could contact a wider range, including various officials and departments in charge of import.
In fact, these are what Gao Xian is most interested in during this trip. Because he has always been curious. In the "old script", a copy of Toshiba machinery poked the hornet's nest and sold the nine axis linkage CNC machine tools within the scope of prohibition to the Soviet Union without telling Haiti. What kind of operation process is it? Maybe it can be used in the future.
As for other activities, Gao Xian also participated in some. In short, what he saw and heard were the best parts that the red Empire wanted to show, including the boycotted opening ceremony of the Moscow Olympic Games.
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When Gao Xian was still fresh in Moscow, niksson suddenly contacted him and mentioned the news that the king of Pahlavi had just died of illness in Egypt. Do you want to go to his funeral together.
From King Pahlavi, Gao Xian really made a lot of money. He was not a politician. As a businessman, his character was the most important. The sign of faith could not be lost, so he agreed almost without thinking.
More than a year after King Pahlavi fled from Iran, it can be described as a bleak evening. He finally entered the United States and was finally driven out. Fortunately, Egypt provided a resting place for his past feelings, including that his first queen was an Egyptian princess.
Carter's mansion really hated King Pahlavi and did not send official personnel. It should be the specification of the vice president or the Secretary of state to attend the funeral. That is, Nixon, the unpopular former American president, ignored the intention of the White House and attended the funeral in person, thus becoming the only representative of the United States at the funeral of former allies.
In Gao Xian's opinion, not to mention King Pahlavi's ruling period, but only the attitude of the US government towards its allies, once it becomes mean, it is really ruthless.
Compared with the supreme glory when sitting on the king's throne, King Pahlavi's funeral was a little shabby. In addition to nikkson and Egyptian President Sadat, it is worth mentioning that Constantine II, the last king of Greece, who accepted abdication and saved his life because he knew the general situation.
According to King Pahlavi's last wish, a bag of Iranian soil was buried. It was Gao Xian's idea to help collect it in Iran and take it out of Tehran.
Gao Xian looked up at the sky and expelled his emotion about King Pahlavi's ups and downs in life. He secretly calculated that King Pahlavi's entry into the soil would mean that there was no possibility of being used by the United States. It was time to go to war in an all-round way without a worried new government of Iran and aggressive Iraq.
Well, if the gold price returns and the oil price fluctuates again, you can make a lot of money!