Bil Herd
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Bil Herd was an early designer of home computers while working for Commodore Business Machines in the early 1980's. Bil designed the Commodore C-128, the Plus 4, C116, C264, C364 and C16 machines and also the initial architecture of the Commodore LCD computer. Recently Herd did a cameo apperence by contributing a snippit of sprite logic code to the C64 Direct-to-TV product designed by Jeri Ellsworth.
Herd continued to design faster and more powerful computers with emphasis on machine vision and is co-author on a patent involving n-dimensional pattern matching.
Herd has undertaken an entrepreneurial role and is owner of several small companies: InterActive Network Systems, Inc, InterActive Design Solutions, Inc and JerseyNet.
Prior Service and other units
1977 - 1980 238th Cavalry - 38th Division Indiana Army National Guard
1980 - 1982 103rd Medical Battalion - 28th Division Pennsylvania Army National Guard
1981 Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service.
1989 - 1996 Fellowship First Aid Squad / Mount Laurel EMS Inc. Highest Rank:Captain (Also served as President)
1991-1995 Cooper Trauma Center - Camden NJ: Trauma Technician
External links
- [On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore] (2005), Variant Press. ISBN 0973864907.
- [Commodore.ca's C128 refernce] – by Ian Matthews
- [Sothius's Impressive Computer Museum]
- [The worlds Best Selling Home Computer is Back]
- [A brief history of the computer demo scene]– by Tamár Polgár
- [Fab's Commodore page - The C128 story]
- [Fab's Commodore page - The C128 story (German)]
- [C128.com Commodore Users Group Video - Updated 2005] Bil Herd, Dave Haynie
References
- Bagnall, Brian (2005)On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore ISBN 0-9738649-0-7
- Greenley, Larry, et.al. (1986). Commodore 128 Programmer's Reference Guide. ISBN 0-553-34378-5.
- Polgár, Tamár (2005)Freax: A brief history of the computer demo scene ISBN 3981049403
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