Chapter 298 It Would Be Much Easier to Study After Knowing the Result

Then it may not be believed.

Hewlett-Packard produced calculators in 1972 because their boss made a joke and made a bet before researching them.

That is, the bet, it took HP only 3 months in 1972 to come up with the first real handheld calculator with an LCD display.

Then in the remaining seven months of that year, 100,000 calculators priced at $395 were sold.

And that product was originally designed for professors in the computer department of the university.

It is not the kind of calculator with 10 numbers that people will be most familiar with in the future, plus four arithmetic keys and an equal sign.

There are more than 60 buttons alone.

But only sold to scientific research institutions, universities, and other researchers, 100,000 units were sold.

It was also making a lot of money on calculators for several years that HP would have enough funds to research computers.

Even if it weren't for the profit of the calculator, HP's failure of several products at the beginning might have gone bankrupt.

If this is simplified to an ordinary version that will definitely defeat professional calculators, whether it can sell a million units a year will only be limited by the output.

This is more profitable than stealing money, but it must be more profitable than making a computer first.

Because compared to calculators, the customer base of computers in this era is just like printers, which are only used by companies and various institutions.

And the audience of the calculator is too wide.

In the non-professional field, the mental arithmetic ability of ordinary people in Europe and America is generally not good due to natural reasons of education and language.

Annie went to the best girls' school and was in the twelfth grade, but if she asked her to multiply 258 by 50, she would go blind.

Then take out the slide rule specially used for calculations in this era.

Before the advent of calculators, all Europeans and Americans would buy a special slide rule with vernier calipers as long as they needed to calculate.

Since computers are still a minority, and the difficulty of research and development can be calculated in years.

Li Changheng would of course choose a calculator that is simple and extremely marketable.

After the establishment of the company, with the income from calculators, he continued to study computers.

Not only is there enough money for research, but it doesn't make people feel too obtrusive.

After all, no matter how smart he is, others will have the highest expectations when they look at him.

A person who has never thought about it in college, suddenly came up with a computer that is definitely considered high-tech in this era.

Moreover, it can compete with similar products on the market in terms of technology.

This somewhat exceeded people's expectations of him, and seemed too monstrous.

Countless examples told him that people fear those who are much, much better than themselves.

Then the rumors of demonization will appear.

Calculators are much simpler.

Register the design as a patent first, and the rest is to hire university professors, or people with doctoral degrees or graduate students from the computer department to understand the relevant technologies of this era.

You don't need to do in-depth research yourself, you just need to know whether the existing technology can be produced.

What will be the approximate cost.

Of course, the importance of secrecy does not need to be reminded, Li Changheng has always put it first since he came to this world.

With the sponsorship fee of 50,000 pounds, he obtained the right to use a well-equipped laboratory at the University of London at a monthly rent of 5,000 pounds.

Then the recruitment letter, which was three times higher than the monthly salary of the professor, was sent by the University of London to the professors and associate professors of the Department of Computer Science.

On the same day, someone took the initiative to go to the laboratory to find Li Changheng.

Two days later, 4 of the 6 professors in the Department of Computer Science became his personal teachers together with their assistants and doctoral students.

Someone taught him how to use the equipment hand in hand, someone taught theories and practical techniques, and poured them into his brain.

Then Li Changheng, who knew what product he wanted, began to buy and customize what he needed.

But I didn't expect to learn and learn. I feel that computers and related knowledge in this era are more like making TVs and refrigerators, only staying in the research of hardware.

You don't need to know how all the parts are produced, you just need to know how to put them together, and that's a computer.

If it is equipped with a form software and a printer, it will be an office integration product of this era.

If so, just learn more.

The curriculum is very tight, the listeners are very serious, and they ask questions from time to time, but they only ask but do not answer, let alone test papers.

The assistant lecturers and doctoral students who taught him have no idea how much he has learned.

It wasn't until a month later that he began to ask four professors about it, and the professors were amazed at his memory and comprehension ability.

I feel that based on what I have learned, it is enough to let myself know if someone is fooling him.

In the next few days, with the assistance of 3 barristers and 6 legal assistants.

Sign a new contract with the University of London, making it clear that any technology he researches in the university laboratory will be owned by him.

Then signed a research contract with a professor who specializes in motherboard research and his 4-person team.

Lee Jang Hyung knows what product he wants and knows the future sales prospects.

I would rather give tens of thousands of pounds more as a commission fee than give this team any equity and any sales share.

Then Zhang Tianzhi was appointed as the security director of the laboratory, and he called Hong Kong and Kowloon to call Tyson French to be the security guard.

In the future, anyone who enters or exits the laboratory will not only have to change clothes, but will also have to be checked.

He didn't call the Death Squad, because he didn't want the Death Squad to understand and be familiar with his power and situation in England.

And when he goes to the United States, he will not bring Zhang Tianzhi and Frankie.

Moreover, Zhang Tianzhi and Ferranci don't understand anything related to technology at all, and they are not in England at all, so it will be very difficult for them to be bribed.

Another month later, Annie told him again that when Gosford Manor invited him to an appointment for the second time, the design draft of the calculator circuit board had already come out.

Just wait for the plan to be confirmed, and apply for a patent as soon as possible.

Then find a chip manufacturer to make it, and try to see if there is any problem.

Therefore, at the moment when the calculator was about to succeed, he was not at all willing to leave London at this time.

Not even for one day, even Anne and Andrew begged him.

Fortunately, Anne didn't like her cousin John Gosford, and she hated Countess Sylvia even more.

Li Changheng refused to go to the appointment twice, and she was just worried that her mother would be unhappy, but she herself was not angry at all.

But I didn't expect that the Earl of Angosford would never get in touch with his niece and son-in-law who refused one after another.

But not two days later, Annie told him that the hunting invitation and reception had been postponed to September, a month later.

Li Changheng looked at Annie in surprise, and saw the little girl take out a newspaper with a smile.

He took the newspaper and looked at it, and saw the front page with the headline "The beginning of the real decline of the nobility".

"Someone is scolding us, can you still laugh?"