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CBM 8 Bit Repair - VCF Workshop Sneak Peek

Rob Clark and Bil Herd team up to talk about repairing 8 Bit Computers and their peripherals on May 5th, 2012 at VCF East 8.0

WCHE Computer Corner, Joe Myshko, Gener Mitchell, Bil Herd

WCHE Computer Corner Interviews Bil Herd

Bil Herd joins fellow Commodore alumni Joe Myshko and Gene Mitchell on Computer Corner on WCHE 1520 West Chester on Saturday 31 March at 8:00 AM.  The video will also be broadcast at

Commodore, expo, 1991, Bil Herd, MP3, C128, Plus4

Commodore Expo 1991

  • Sat, 2012-01-07 23:58

Here is an oldie: MP3's of my talk at the Commodore Expo in Lousville around 1991.  Noisey at first, gets better, the kid in the background is mine.
 

Bil Herd Video on Commodore C116

C116 Video with Bil Herd

Thanks again to Rob Clarke who sent me a C116 in beautiful condition, A Joystick which I never thought I would see again, and a Jack Attack cartridge which was the one game we had going at the CES

Commodore C232 Bil Herd Dave Haynie Fred Bowen Terry Ryan

Commodore C232, aka "32K TED" - Courtesy of Rob Clarke

Thanks to Rob Clark for these great pictures of a working 232, aka "32K TED".  This would have been based on the standard PCB layouts and then modified by Okubo-san's team in Tokyo.  There were MAN

Old Chips

  • Thu, 2011-10-27 23:58

Thanks to Gerrit Heitsch for the pics of old chips including HMOSI and HMOSII versions of the 7501/8501 which would have caught it in mid release for the Plus4 cycle.
 

Commodore LCD Firmware

  • Fri, 2011-10-21 21:18

Mike Naberezny sent me a quality EPROM burner to read the LCD ROMS from this 25 year old prototype.  The files can be found at

Commodore C64 Anniversary with Jack Tramiel, Steve Wozniak and Bil Herd

Commodore C64 25th Anniversary w/ Jack Tramiel

This was a very rare appearance by Jack Tramiel a couple of years ago at the 25th anniversary of the Commodore C64.  A retro time was had by all.  Sign up or subscribe to RSS for more retro paraphe

Phase Locked Loop PLL 101 - Bil Herd, Jeri Ellsworth

  • Tue, 2011-10-18 09:36

Jeri Ellsworth and Bil Herd get together and discuss the Phase Locked Loop (PLL).  Did you know that this part can predict the future?  That it has inertia and momentum and stores energy in the for

The C128 Story

  • Sun, 2011-10-09 00:52

The C128 story
NEW German version of the C128 story from the 64'er magazine

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