bloom america

Chapter 288 Walkman and Backpacker

People feel happy when happy events happen. Although Catherine understands magnetoresistive head technology, she doesn't know much about the content of the technology itself.

She is not like the protagonists in yyxiǎo, who knows everything in heaven and on earth...

In fact, the reason why I know so many things is because my memory has been enhanced since I came to this world.

After writing down the general content of magnetoresistive head technology on paper, Catherine went to the bookcase and took out a book on magnetism. Catherine read it. She wanted to make sure whether her theory was correct - if she remembered it wrong.

If someone discovered something, it would be a huge embarrassment.

It took about two hours before Catherine completed the introduction to magnetoresistive head technology. There were not many words, and the content of the article was very general, but this was the same as Catherine's usual approach - to provide technicians with information.

Specify a research direction.

"Sanders? Come to my office. I have a question for you."

Catherine called Sanders over.

"I'm going to develop a hard drive." When Sanders came in, Catherine's words shocked him.

"We... develop hard drives?" Sanders was a little surprised.

"Yes, hard drive. It's a must."

"But why is this? Our system can be stored in read-only memory, so the reading speed is fast and there will be no accidents."

"It's a server. I plan to use this thing in the server equipment, so I have to use this." Catherine shrugged.

"Server...you mean, we want to develop a new server for the Internet?"

Catherine handed over Ralph's previous plan to Sanders.

"That's it."

Sanders picked up the schedule and after looking at it for a few minutes, he nodded.

"I see. In other words... we are not going to use the purchased IBM hard drive?"

"No... let's just use it for the time being. In just a few years, it will be difficult for our hard drive to beat IBM."

In the 1970s, IBM's hard drives were expanding their capacity at a rate of 30% per year. It was definitely impossible to catch up, but there was another way, and that was the magnetoresistive head technology.

"Sanders, do you think this is feasible?"

Catherine handed Sanders what she had just written.

"Well... although I don't know much about hard drives, it seems that it is not impossible to achieve what is mentioned above."

"Miss Sanders?"

At this moment, the mén was struck.

Entering is Olson.

Catherine stopped her discussion with Sanders and asked, "Has the discussion ended?"

Olson nodded: "If it is a small machine, our cost will be about US$10,000 to US$35,000, depending on the type of server we need."

"What if it's a microcomputer?"

"As for microcomputers... the best solution would be to use the military version of z80, which is stable and reliable. But in this case, it will be difficult for us to face the current network, so the people in the technology department believe that at least a 16-bit CPU is needed, and sfcting is suitable.

of."

"There is no problem in this regard, we Intel is developing the military version of SFC." Sanders said.

"That's the kind of used on the tank?" Olson seemed to hear something.

"Well, that's the kind of." Sanders nodded.

"If you use a microcomputer, the memory supported by the Z80 is very xiǎo, and SFC can support the maximum 4MB memory, which is very good for our product development."

Catherine nodded.

The current computer memory is not played. SFC can support 4MB of memory. In the eyes of many people, it is incredible.

This is like in the 512MB memory era. Some people have used 4GB of memory, which will always make people wide eyes.

"... In addition, our technical department suggested whether it is possible to install a firewall on the server, just like the one we developed to the CIA. The server is different from ordinary computers. If someone invades, there may be some troubles.

"

Catherine nodded, this is indeed an important problem. Some things are best to prevent it. Catherine is very sure of this opinion of Olson.

"There is another thing ..."

"So ... about the problem of hard disk, I will discuss with the technician." Sanders suddenly said.

"Oh ... I'm sorry." Catherine suddenly found that he had forgotten Sanders aside: "That's it."

Sanders picked up the file of Catherine, and then left.

Catherine turned her eyes again to Olson.

"Olson, what is another thing you said?"

"Oh, it is about the incident of portable listening. The Ministry of Technology has developed new products, but although it can listen to songs ... but it is difficult to shrink the volume xiǎo."

"oh?"

After listening to it with you so soon?

Catherine did not expect that there was such a big surprise today.

"Really?"

"We have tested. The sound track is very perfect."

"Okay, I'll go now ..." At this time, the phone suddenly rang. Catherine had to say, "Elsa, you go with Olson and listen to me with you."

The phone was called by the Los Angeles Times. They wanted to discuss with the US telecommunications newspaper. The means of online payment have not been realized for the time being. So so far, they can only use telephone ordering.

When the phone was hung up, Elsa and Olson had returned. Olson was holding a round thing in his hand.

"This is the product report, Sister Edson xiǎo."

Olson gave a report jiāo to Catherine.

"This is the CD to listen to it?" Elsa looked at this huge thing, it was really difficult to connect it with "with you".

"To be precise, this is just a semi -finished product ... but it can be used to listen to songs, and the effect is definitely better than those tape players." Olson explained.

Perhaps because of the "premature birth" relationship, many electronic components have no way to have XIǎo, so there can only be such a semi -finished product.

However, compared to the tape player, this disc player is advanced, and the weight is very light.

"Hmm...can this product be further reduced?" Catherine asked.

"Yes, but it will take two or three years." Olson poured cold water on Catherine.

Catherine shook her head, that would definitely not work.

"The weight is 1.8 kilograms..." Catherine looked at the parameters next to her again.

After putting the battery in, it is 2kg.

In this case, it is obviously impossible to make a "Walkman", but must it be made into a Walkman?

Catherine was thinking.

"Maybe we should make this product something very popular. Elsa, if you say so, will many people like it?"

Elsa seemed to be thinking about something.

"Maybe... young people today probably like to be unique. Those people (hippies) like to run up and down the streets every day and hold parades. I often see them carrying a huge player

The machine is walking up and down the street..."

Catherine looked at the half-finished machine thoughtfully.

"Hmm...what if we designed this 'Walkman' to look like a backpack?"

Catherine thought, then picked up paper and pen, and sketched the appearance of the backpack.

"How about making it in this form?"

"It's beautiful." This was Elsa's answer.

"Very good." Olson nodded.

Although both of them agreed, this was a sketch after all, and there was still a lot to do in the design.

"Just use it in the form of a backpack... Regarding this 'Walkman', do you think there is anything that needs to be improved?"

Elsa said: "There should be more songs. This is very important. Everyone has their own favorite songs, so the number of songs must be large."

Catherine deeply agreed with Elsa's opinion.

"Well, that's true. We need to contact various record companies and ask them to make audio track CDs for us..."

In fact, Catherine wasn't too worried about this problem.

There are considerable advantages between CDs and current tapes.

First of all, the storage capacity of CDs is very large, so it can better restore the sound quality. Moreover, CDs can realize multiple audio tracks, giving people a wonderful enjoyment.

In fact, Catherine has no special talent for music at all, and it is difficult to distinguish subtle differences in voices, so she is destined not to be able to sing and pick up girls at the same time like those protagonists mentioned by yyxiǎo.

But Catherine still knew people's love for because.

Why are there professional-level sound cards? Why are there home theaters?

Most people want to put their ears in a state of enjoyment instead of listening to inferior music.

Catherine once had a friend in her previous life who was a music enthusiast. He bought a professional sound card and a high-fidelity headset worth 1,000 yuan. In an ordinary 10-yuan headset, you can't hear the difference between mp3 and ape. In an instant, it becomes

Two different levels of things.

So Catherine knew that in terms of sound quality, she could not be as good as those cheap players.

This is like the "future" Apple iPhone 4 mobile phone, which uses "retina" technology and ultra-fine images, giving people a stylish and superior feeling when they take out the phone.

Catherine is ready to turn this "portable" into a similar product.

The design of the appearance is very important, then the number of music, and the difference in sound quality.

Apple becomes a high -end product, which is Catherine's established strategy. As Apple becomes more and more high -end, low -end oranges will also appear in time.

At this time, it is obviously not suitable for "listening to you". What is it good?

"Backpacker? How about this name? This is the name of this player"

Catherine said.

"Ers? It sounds good." Olson seemed to agree.

"Hmm, that's it, that's it -ERS."