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June 2, 2023, Episode #381
Bil Herd, one of the early engineers of Home Computers, joins as a guest on this week’s episode of the podcast. Bil led the hardware design for the Commodore C128 and Plus4 Series of computers in the 1980’s and currently co-hosts a weekly webcast which can be seen at Coriolis-effect.com
Back Into the Storm: A design engineers story of Commodore Computers in the 1980’s
- Returning to Texas this June
- June 23rd - 25th VCF Southwest
- August 4-5th VCF West
- Vcfed.org
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- Bil co-hosts this along with Ben Jordan!
- Summary of the show / Topics
- Deep dives into circuit analysis
- Signal integrity
DFM and assembly process
- The Commodore C128 was designed during the era of through hole components.
- How did the advent of Surface Mount Tech change design?
- Through hole is still used today and what mistakes do modern engineers and designers do when using through hole components?
- How often did “green wire” fixes go into production?
Bil Herd
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