Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer’s Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s brings you on a journey recounting the experiences of working at Commodore Business Machines from 1983 to 1986， as seen through the eyes of a young hardware engineer， Bil Herd。 Herd was the lead design engineer for the TED series of home computers which included the Plus/4 and C16。 He was also the lead designer for the versatile C128 that sold in the millions and was known fondly as the last of the 8-bit computers。 In this book， Bil tells the inside stories that he and his extraordinary team， called “the Animals，” lived through at Commodore。