CBM engineer Bil Herd - virtual guest

[RobertBe]

Hello to all,

At this month's Nov. 20 FCUG meeting, CBM engineer Bil Herd will be our "virtual" guest as he comes on-line to video-chat with us. Bil Herd was instrumental in developing the Plus/4 and was the lead engineer for the C128.

If you have any questions or comments for Bil, post them here, and we will relay them to him at the meeting. We hope to videotape the session for everybody to see later.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[PhilRanger]

... We hope to videotape the session...

I see it's not only the computers that are retro here

[RobertBe]

We haven't found a good screen-recording program, so out comes the Canon HV-40 hi-def camcorder which records to mini DV tape.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertBe]

At this month's Nov. 20 FCUG meeting, CBM engineer Bil Herd will be our "virtual" guest as he comes on-line to video-chat with us.

Also Bil will be broadcasting live from his end of the feed (cross your fingers that errors don't pop up). He writes, "...we will be broadcasting live on

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bilherd ..."

We hope to videotape the session for everybody to see later.

Bil will be trying to record the session at his end of the feed, too.

Send your questions in,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertBe]

Estimated time of the start of the chat - 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time.

We are still gathering questions for Bil, and even if you can't make the meeting, send those questions in, and we'll ask Bil. Though CBM engineer Bob Russell (VIC-20 engineer) is not expected at the chat, if you have any questions for him, post them here, and we'll ask Bil to relay them to Bob.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertBe]

Bil recorded the chat at his end of the feed. It is on line at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bilherd

Some audio problems with trying to hear our questions, but if I can combine his video and audio and overlay the audio from our recording of our side of the session, maybe we can have one whole production.

Hey, we even talked about the VIC-1540,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertBe]

Bil recorded the chat at his end of the feed. It is on line at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bilherd

Some audio problems with trying to hear our questions, but if I can combine his video and audio and overlay the audio...

Recorded from our side of the chat, our version of the Bil Herd chat is now on-line. Audio is much improved, i.e., more understandable, and video gaps on our side of the chat have been filled in with clips from Bil's video recording.

To see our recording, go to

Bil Herd speaks to the Fresno Commodore User Group, part 1
http://blip.tv/file/5814094

Bil Herd speaks to the Fresno Commodore User Group, part 2
http://blip.tv/file/5814249

Merry Christmas!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertBe]

In a kind of follow-up to the above chats, Bil Herd has posted a new video about the Commodore 116, the $49 computer he and the other CBM engineers hoped would be good seller for Commodore Business Machines.

To find out what happened to the C116, see Bil's video at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... PD5N43VIsk

Happy New Year!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug