Working at Commodore in the mid 1980's as a lead designer: From conception to production of Commodore's newest and last 8 Bit Computer, the C128, and making the CES show in just 5 months. Includes the trails and tribulations of custom hardware, IC's, software and navigating management's obstacles. Most of all it's a story about visualizing success, and taking each step towards a hard date of the 1986 CES show where no excuse whatsoever would suffice for missing the show.
Bil Herd is a self taught hardware engineer. He was the lead engineer and designer of at least seven models of home computers while working for Commodore Business Machines in the 1980's. He is a designer of instrumentation, versed in EMI/RFI, Analog, FPGA, High-Speed Digital, DSP, and is a Video Producer at Hackaday.