bil herd and dave haynie from commodore fame video

jnash2001 · Post by **jnash2001** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:23 am

hi fellas!
after listening to the last show (209) where bil herd was the guest, i googled around and found this cool video on http://www.c128.com where they talk and show some of the old comps from commodore.
great show btw!

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:59 am

Thanks for the complements and link. Yeah I posted that video in the IRC during the show. Good stuff. Gotta get Dave Haynie on next at some point. Bil is a very cool guy.

Post by **dann** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:52 am

Bil was friggin awesome! Although, I still hate commodore (out of jealousy I must add) and all you commodre fanboys.

Why would my daddy get me a commodore?

allix · Post by **allix** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:10 am

dann wrote:Bil was friggin awesome! Although, I still hate commodore (out of jealousy I must add) and all you commodre fanboys.

Why would my daddy get me a commodore?

I had a NES when all the other kids had a SNES .

mowestusa · Post by **mowestusa** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:45 am

dann wrote:Bil was friggin awesome! Although, I still hate commodore (out of jealousy I must add) and all you commodre fanboys.

Why would my daddy get me a commodore?

Would there be any way to get some of the guys who developed the TI and the Trash 80's. I would think that there are some interesting stories from those areas of the computer world as well. Then Dann could enjoy the guests without getting pangs of jealously during the interview. In fact, Dann could talk about his TI hacking days and make all of us feel jealous.

Oh, by the way, my parents always felt they were too poor to get a computer for our home until the Amiga 2000 came out. I missed out on the C64 and the C128 and the Trash 80's and the TI's. I would have been excited if any of those had found their way into my home. I did have an Atari 2600 for games, but by that time most everyone had one. The closest I could get to a real computer was an Apple IIe that my friend had, and that we had a school in the 7th-8th grade classroom. I really enjoyed the interview with Bil even though I never have touched a C128.

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:04 pm

Besides owning Commodores I did have some exposure to TRS-80s in grammer school. I had one "rich friend" who had an Apple II. Another friend had a TI-99/4A. When I was a freshman in high school I had a buddy who ran a BBS on his Atari 400. I would not be opposed to talking to someone from Atari, Tandy or "gasp" Apple. The Woz actually comes off like a nice guy unlike the other Steve.

yeti · Post by **yeti** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:47 am

Bil was an awesome guest, can't wait till you get him back again but for more Commodore goodness, Bil was also interviewed by Earl @ Retrobits this past week or so

split over 2 parts, part 1 is up now:
http://www.retrobits.libsyn.com/

schotty · Post by **schotty** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:11 pm

Fell a wee bit behind on the show again. But this was one of the coolest guests ever. Get dude on whenever you want, as long as its sooner rather than later.

Literally this was a great early (or late, depending on my view) birthday present