Install both large and small floppy drives, as well as cassette-type hard drives. Also install a sound card and a small speaker in the computer case.
You can use the cassette tray to play cassette tapes.
This is considered the oldest computer-compatible multimedia mode.
If you find the built-in speakers in the computer case to be of poor sound quality, you can connect external speakers.
Speaker jacks were provided for easy connection of speakers by customers. Of course, for the sake of their own sound quality, Xing Baohua specifically asked the audio workshop to customize a 2.1 active amplifier system.
The price isn't expensive, but it's not cheap either. However, the sound quality will be very good, since it has a built-in amplifier.
A super-luxury desktop computer with a cutting-edge design was brought to life on the blueprints.
Xing Baohua set three price points for this machine: 8999, ...
The low-end version is basically a computer case with a bulky monitor. The case doesn't include a floppy drive or a cartridge reader/writer.
The mid-range version still has a bulky CRT monitor, but it comes with a floppy drive.
The high-end version comes with everything, most importantly an LCD monitor, and also a 2.1 speaker system.
The sound system alone is worth 600 yuan.
These are the domestic prices, for products shipped by Lenovo and Great Wall.
As for the export version, it has no advantage!
They've already released the 286, which is four or five years behind. How can we compete?
The only thing that can be sold for money is that damn pseudo-rugged laptop.
Xing Baohua never thought about how much money he could make from the foreign trade version.
Now we can only hope that the graphics card can be developed, and that Xing Baohua will come up with a concept machine to fool people.
After the software team finishes developing the logistics and financial systems, this guy plans to have them work on a digital video editing system with some basic special effects.
This is another long and expensive path, but we have to do it.
If you convert a cassette tape to digital format, it will be about 700MB.
That would require a huge hard drive. Fortunately, IBM has already developed a 20GB hard drive.
The price is basically astronomical, and it's not light either.
Xing Baohua will also invest heavily in research and development, making necessary purchases.
With a huge hard drive, you can store the data and then compress it again using compression software.
So we also need to develop compression software. Once that's done, we can charge for the software.
Customers are willing to spend a little money on software that can save hard drive space.
This thing is specifically designed for film and television companies and advertising companies.
Whether it's video editing software or compression software, ordinary organizations and individuals certainly don't need it; it's easy to make money with targeted products.
For example, you could add simple color tones and create basic special effects, like fire, lightning, or clouds.
If the host's CPU is insufficient, it can be converted to a dual-CPU system. This means that two CPUs work together on one motherboard. Dual-CPU systems are rarely seen in personal computers.
If the graphics card can't handle the load, add another graphics card to create a CrossFire configuration.
A host with these features would be embarrassed to charge less than several hundred thousand US dollars.
The key issues are expensive hard drives and expensive software.
Xing Baohua wanted to use compression software to create special effects or something.
He himself was unaware that he had left behind a hidden danger.
The lower the compression level, the lower the pixel resolution. It might be passable on a computer screen, but what about on a large screen?
It's all pixelated squares; to put it bluntly, it's all been pixelated. How can you even watch it?
The process of transferring magnets from adhesive to magnet is inherently lossy, and with the added magnetic rotation speed, the loss becomes extremely high. After compression, what's the point of even looking at it?
Although Xing Baohua cheated many film and television companies, especially those from the United States—a truly bitter experience—he later made numerous compensations to maintain his reputation. But that's another story.
It's really frustrating not being able to get the latest CPUs; otherwise, we could really compete with other computer manufacturers in the market.
Currently, the only low-spec option is the Apple PC. The Lisa model hasn't made much of a splash in the market.
It's just that it looks nice.
The only highlight is that it uses a mouse.
Faced with the choice between a mechanical mouse and an optical mouse, Xing Baohua chose the former. Mechanical scroll wheels are easy to manufacture, but optical sensors can only be customized by Motorola.
Xing Baohua estimates that it will only be available on at least the third generation of computers by the time the finished product is ready.
Then, another order was given to the fifth workshop of the machine shop: the simplest membrane keyboard.
The design is simple; the circuit board manufacturing plant will print the circuit on a layer of plastic paper, and the fifth workshop will assemble it.
It's not technically difficult.
As for the feel?
It's a thing that costs less than 12 yuan to make, why bother with the feel of it?
As long as the fifth workshop maintains good quality control, it should last for one or two years without any problems.
As for high-end computers, Xing Baohua still uses mechanical keyboards, but he no longer makes them himself and uses imported switches.
The keyboard has both wireless and wired components, and the wireless battery is actually a portable music player battery with a capacity of only 300 mAh.
It lasts a week on standby, and even with frequent use, it only lasts two days.
The wireless frequency is 2.4GHz. The receiver's motherboard is installed directly inside the computer case.
A red secondary LED was added to the outside of the computer case; the red light will illuminate when connected to the keyboard.
Look, this is what luxury configuration looks like.
After the Lunar New Year, Zou Wenjuan and the others were about to leave. Wang Weibao had collected a lot of songs for her in Hong Kong, which she was going to record.
Some left, some came.
There are now many low-end, inexpensive pagers on the market.
Two paging services were also listed.
The cheapest pager is already 800 yuan a unit.
The price was so low that quite a few people bought it.
Xing Baohua was also shocked when he received this news.
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