Do you recognize this guy?
That’s Bil Herd co-inventor of the Commodore 128 microcomputer.
How about this one?
That’s Dave Haynie co-inventor of several Commodore Amiga microcomputers.
How about this one?
That’s Andy Finkel. Software engineer on several Commodore Amiga microcomputers.
All of these people list above worked for a company called Commodore which made some of the best selling, innovative microcomputers of all time!
Would you like to meet these people?
Well you are in luck! We are excited to announce the biggest Commodore employee reunion in years!
Where can you find them? At VCF East 2022!
Everyone loved our Virtual VCF 2020 gabfest between Bil Herd and Dave Haynie. Well this year’s gabfest will be many times bigger!
On Friday, April 22 will be the technical talks:
12:30 to 2PM: Bil Herd and Albert Charpentier will be discussing the technical aspects of the Commodore VIC and VIC-II chip.
2:30PM to 4PM: Dave Haynie and Andy Finkel will be discussing the technical aspects of the Amiga microchips.
On Saturday, April 23 will be the COMMODORE EMPLOYEE FIRESIDE CHAT from 12:30PM to 2:30PM!!!
- Bil Herd – Co-creator of the Commodore 128, Plus/4
- Dave Haynie – Co-creator of the Amiga 4000
- Andy Finkel – member of the VIC Commandos, was C64 developer software manager, head of the games group, software manager, Amiga software manager, then director of Amiga software, then CDTV consultant.
- Neil Harris – One of the Vic-20 Commandos that successfully brought bring the Vic-20 to market
- Bob Russell – Instrumental in the development of the C64 and Vic-20
- Pet Computer: 2nd Generation (4000 & 8000 series)
Original CBM dual floppy disk drive
VIC-20: Convinced Management to make this a ‘real computer’
P and B Series: Oversaw the Kernel development.
C-64 and MAX
1541 Disk Drive: Software to work with the C-64 timing.
Z8000 Business Machines
- Benny Pruden – Numerous Commodore hardware and software projects including:
- Commodore Cash Register firmware (including printer mechanism driver)
- Pet Business BASIC extensions
- CP/M, CP/M-86, & Concurrent CP/M BIOS(s) for Super Pet
- 1541 C64 floppy firmware release
- C64 Cheap / Fast floppy disk
- Super Pet Kernel bank switching routines
- 1541 C64 floppy disk cost reduction
- Z8 based Universal Format floppy driver
- Another Fast Floppy disk prototype (With H/W shift register acceleration)
- Universal Format floppy custom chip architecture & firmware driver
- Amiga evaluation & floppy tweak
- Joe Myshko -VAX system administrator
- Cary Sagedy Amiga Genloc, Emmy winning Broadcast camera for RCA
- Hedley Davis – LCD, 1351 Mouse, A3000, The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive, SX52, A2024 Hires Monitor, CDTV-CR., XBOX, 3DO, WebTV. Spinning globe demo, debugged TED cassette code, Hedley Hires display.
- Dave Esposito – Calma IC Layout at MOS
Following the fireside chat will a birthday party for the Commodore 64. Celebrating its 40th birthday!
Don’t miss your chance to see this once in a lifetime opportunity!
