"because nobody was there to stop us"

Engineers run amok!

I don't need an alarm clock in the morning, I constantly check what time is it for the entire night and then get up when time comes

"Why did you do it?"
"Because nobody stopped us."
Classic.

I smuggled one of these into the former Yugoslavia in 1984 for a friend. The 64 was widely available but there was a ban on the 128 because it was considered so powerful that it was seen as a threat. Took it in by train in a rucksack, and shared a compartment with a Canadian press photographer who was on vacation, but had loads of camera equipment with him. The border guards spent so much time noting down the serial numbers of his cameras and lenses that they just gave me a cursory glance.

Me: Mom, can we buy the 1571 disk drive?
Mom: No, we have a disk drive at home.
Disk drive at home: 1541

"Well, we could just check our phones for an inbound phone call." That got a (loud) audible laugh out of me. I wish I could have been a developer/engineer back in the mid-to-late 80s. It was like the Wild West.

Oh man. The "because nobody stopped us" is so real. Good and technically-knowledgeable managers are so necessary, and yet for some reason executives often think that they can replace "good managers" with "more managers". They all bicker upwards about how to divy the current money instead of looking at the direction the market is heading and working with the engineering brains to figure out how to achieve that.

I rarely enjoy it when a YouTuber hands over the mic, as it were, to a guest speaker, but this guy was great. Talk about a first-hand account!!

I am impressed that you found a guy who was actually involved in this stuff.

Before I write anything else: "Two holes for the D" - Bill Herd, 2018.
Ahem...

I have boxes and boxes of floppies in my garage of 128 software I wrote myself but sold my 128 + 1571 + 1581 + 512k expansion in 1990 (for $750).  I wouldn't exactly call it high quality software that I wrote, but I was one of those people who decided that I had two processors and I wanted to use both of them at once.  It started with me trying to be in c64 mode while I was still getting the z80 going  independently on the 80 column monitor, and then it just kept going from there.  This was probably a big part of why I still make my living writing system software today.   This video was the one of this series that I'd been looking forward to the most.

"You could simply look at a register".  (11:15) ROFL!!!

Bill Herd is a legend for two reasons. One - because he is Bill Herd. Two - He hired Dave Haynie.

It’s 2020 and we’re still waiting for that Amiga episode.

This was our first computer! I remember my brother got a modem for it... in the manual there was a section that said that in the future we would shop and order pizza online.  I thought the idea was ridiculous at the time....I guess I was wrong

My first computer was a C128, with 1571 and 1581 disk drives, the commodore monitor and the 512K RAM expansion. I ran GEOS, played games and used a lot of application software. One of my life regrets was selling it to get a 386. I used it from 1985 to 1993. Awesome machine. Tell Bill thanks for the memories.

"The production boards all had these two holes in the PC board... For the D."
I'll admit, I chuckled.

Planet X4. Coming soon to the Commodore 128.

'Do you know what that question means?' Love it.. Bill Herd is the god of techie engineers.

So games wise this machine was essentially the 32X of its era: a stopgap product that was rarely used by developers, capable as it was.