Macrofab Engineering Podcast

MEP EP#381: Bil Herd - Back Into the StormBil 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.comTopics:Back Into the Storm: A design engineers story of Commodore Computers in the 1980’sVintage Computer Festival Returning to Texas this June June 23rd - 25th VCF Southwest August 4-5th VCF West Vcfed.org Coriolis-Effect 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?