The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128 179
szczys writes "Bil Herd was the designer and hardware lead for the Commodore C128. He reminisces about the herculean effort his team took on in order to bring the hardware to market in just five months. At the time the company had the resources to roll their own silicon (that's right, custom chips!) but this also meant that for three of those five months they didn't actually have the integrated circuits the computer was based on."
Re:Mistake (Score:5, Funny)
Re:U.S. Navy? (Score:5, Funny)
This is such a Slashdot story :)
"A girl invited me to her house on several occasions. Each time, I spent more and more time being impressed with the Commodore 64"
About time (Score:4, Funny)
Excellent, my wife's been on me to upgrade my C64