VCF East 4.0 video of Peddle, Herd, Haynie, and Russell

[RobertB]

Yow!  Go for it!  I'm proud to announce that the first 2 parts of the Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0, starring CBM engineers Chuck Peddle, Bil Herd, Dave Haynie, Bob Russell, and a slew of admirers, is now up at http://www.youtube.com   Just type in the search for hazydave  and then look for VCF East 4.0 1/4 and VCF East 4.0 2/4. Dave Haynie, master video and audio editor, has combined his and my video footage to recreate this historic gathering of CBM talent.

Here is part of what Dave had to say:

Hey-

        I'm starting to upload the VCF stuff to my YouTube "channel" (channel "hazydave"). I broke it up into four parts, roughly 1/2 hour each, to get around the 100MB upload limits on YouTube.

        I'm also working on a very basic DVD... I rendered it yesterday, but it came out a tad too large to fit on a DVD5, so I'm re-rendering at a slightly lower bitrate.

        I used as much of my video as I had, mainly because your camera had some weird sync effect ... maybe CCD vs. CMOS, I don't know. I did have another tape from my "pocket" camcorder, but you had better preliminary video, so I used that, and a tiny bit of coverage during the interview when I had to change tapes.

        Thing is, this is a VERY cool interview... best one yet, far as I'm concerned. Mr. Peddle pretty much confirmed everything I had heard in story/legend around Commodore -- he is the true inventor of the personal computer, as it came to be. Everyone else, from Apple to IBM, just followed.  That's a story that needs to be told again... it's so easy for the winners to claim it all.. and that would annoy me even if I didn't have problems with Apple.

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Dave Haynie | On YouTube: "hazydave" channel
http://youtube.com/user/hazydave
Chief Toady | Frog Pond Media | Audio/Video/Hardware/Software Consulting
"The Deathbed Vigil" on DVD, now!! http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv

         Excellent stuff!
         Robert Bernardo
         Fresno Commodore User Group
         http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertB]

I wrote:

> I'm proud to announce that the first 2 parts of the Vintage
> Computer Festival East 4.0, starring CBM engineers Chuck
> Peddle, Bil Herd, Dave Haynie, Bob Russell, and a slew of
> admirers, is now up at http://www.youtube.com Just type in
> the search for hazydave and then look for VCF East 4.0 1/4
> and VCF East 4.0 2/4.

YouTube.com now has the last 2 parts -- 3/4 and 4/4.

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

[Amiduffer]

Looks fun. Hopefully I'll have the time to look at it all.

[ajlwalker]

I love this sort of stuff.

I'm onto the 4th video now and it is fascinating.  I am in complete awe of what these guys achieved.

[weirdami]

I like the line about how he "started with sand".