Chapter 743: Walkman (Addition 2)
The Walkman was invented by the island nation Sony in 79. In fact, tapes have been available for a long time, even as early as the period of World War II, and began to use tapes as a medium for recording, and then, in the sixties, cassette tapes were invented, and because www.biquge.info of their portability, they quickly became popular, bringing about the prosperity of tape recorders.
The Walkman, on the other hand, was a by-product, and under the electronic technology of the time, the cassette recorders were bulky. Sony, on the other hand, has solved the problem of miniaturization of circuits and made the tape amplifier very small in size, which can be easily carried, and the most popular is to hang it on the waist. Especially after hiring a few international models to advertise, the Walkman began to take the world by storm.
However, all this changed after the occupation of the island nation!
In order to sanction the island countries, the United States led the entire Western world and began to increase the punitive measures of tariffs on the products of the island countries, which led to the high prices of the goods exported by the island countries.
However, once these things became popular, they were always welcomed by the majority of the people, just like the fruit fans of later generations could queue up all night in order to buy a kidney six, this kind of Walkman is also their favorite.
Electronics manufacturers in Western Europe and the United States have also produced some similar goods, but they are not as beautiful as the island countries and have stable performance, so even if the price of the island countries' walkmans is high, they are willing to spend more money to buy them.
And now, Heinrich listened to it with a smacking tongue, the original tape Walkman, the mainstream product on his side, is outdated here! And because it is outdated, the price is also incomparably low, 80 marks! Only one-tenth of your own!
How does the government advertise it? The economy here is backward, the people live in poverty, and they can't even eat! But how can prices be so cheap here? If you pour some Walkman from here, you will definitely make a lot of money when you get to your side!
However, not now, Heinrich continued to listen to the clerk introduce himself: "The biggest disadvantage of the tape is that it is analog, and it cannot be located on a particular song, and the sound quality is very poor. So, we're using CDs now, and this kind of sound quality is many times better than tapes, and you can compare that. ”
As he spoke, the clerk took out one of the CDs inside, pressed the switch, and handed the headphones to Heinrich. Heinrich tried to put it on his ears, and inside, came the famous song of the Smith Spaceship, idon\'twanttomissathing.
With headphones on and eyes closed, the sound quality is not only much better than a tape, but even better than a record!
It turns out that the Walkman can also achieve such an effect! On your side, you're too far behind!
"How much does this Walkman sell for? I want to. Heinrich asked, this thing, but a high-tech product, maybe the price will be very high, if it exceeds 300 marks, then he can only take off the watch, temporarily mortgage here, take this Walkman, it can be regarded as a surprise for the child!
"240 marks." The other party said: "This is a new model, and there is an old model here, which is only sold for 200 marks." The clerk's smile was so sweet.
"That's it!" Heinrich decided in an instant, buy a good one for the child! Enough money of your own!
Of course, Heinrich didn't know that the CD Walkman had only recently become popular in Eastern European countries, and this CD was developed by Sony last year, which developed a full set of technical standards and applied for a technology patent, and if other companies wanted to produce the same product, they would need to pay patent fees to Sony.
And because this product is the latest launch, the price is already high, coupled with the high tariffs on exports to the Western world, so that this product can not be exported to the Western world for the time being, Sony is still having a headache, as a result, today, the people from West Germany, patronize the East Germany, and from this day on, this Walkman has also begun to spread to the entire West. Western electronics companies, which then had to pay high royalties to Sony, became the leader in the manufacture and sale of this Walkman.
Heinrich was the first West German customer.
When Heinrich watched the walkman being wrapped, invoiced, and paid, he found that he could no longer walk out smoothly, and a large number of people surrounded him!
"The Walkman here is only 80 marks, it's too cheap, buy one and take it home!"
"I want ten!"
"The tape Walkman is outdated, see? The guy who just left, with a round Walkman, that's cool enough! Let's buy that one, it's only two or three hundred marks, which is cheaper than our tape walkman over there! ”
It's incredible! When the skeptical West Germans entered the GDR through the open gates, they were shocked by what was happening.
A Walkman alone is more than their common sense, why is it so cheap?
If the Walkman was just a special case, then Heinrich was even more stunned when he walked on and saw a PC store!
Personal computer! It's the 80s, and even in the Western world, personal computers are high-end products!
Now, the personal computer that is popular in the entire Western world is the representative IBMPC, which is configured with 8088 CPU of 4.77MHz, B of memory, which can also be expanded to 256Kb, 1 or 2 x 5.25-inch floppy drives, and a color monitor, priced at 1565 US dollars, equivalent to about 2500 marks.
And now? In front of Heinrich was a personal computer assembled in East Germany called the Berlin Radio Factory! This computer, on the introduction next to it, uses a 20MHz CPU! 64KB of RAM, 2 floppy drives, plus a color display. And, in addition to the keyboard, there is a small mouse-like thing next to it, dragging a thread!
20mhz! Only the latest 80286 CPU produced by Intel in the United States can reach this speed! Since this CPU was developed only this year, it is only sold in the United States, the production is limited, and there is no distribution in Western Europe, but the Soviet Union already has a similar product, which is codenamed ES-1842S! (To be continued.) )