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	Jay Miner@Everything2.com
		Jay Miner designed the Agnus chip, which is one of the most central chips in the now obsolete OCS architechture, which was installed in the first generation of Amigas.
		Jay Miner was not only responsible for the custom coprocessors in the Amiga, but he was also the designer of the Stella chip in the extremely popular Atari 2600 home video game system.
		One thing that is amazing about the products that Jay Miner produced is that they were not only extremely advanced in their own right, but they also had the capability of being hacked by clever programmers to go far beyond their original intentions.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=154262 (351 words)

	Jay Miner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips.
		Miner started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker.
		Jay Miner's signature from the top cover of a Commodore Amiga 1000 computer, his masterpiece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jay_Miner (612 words)

	Jay Miner
		Jay Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous chip designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips.
		After working on the TIA he headed up the design of the follow-on chip set that would go on to be the basis of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers, known as ANTIC and GTIA.
		Jay always took his dog "Mitchy" with him wherever he went.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jay_Miner.html (445 words)

	8-Bit-Nirvana: Jay Glenn Miner (1932-1994)
		Jay Miner war einer der großen Designer im Computergeschäft. Er war für Atari an vielen Geräten maßgeblich beteiligt, später schuf er dann mit dem Amiga einen völlig neuen Rechner, der wiederum Maßstäbe setzte.
		Jay Miner hatte den Großteil seines Lebens mit defekten Nieren und dadurch mit Dialysebehandlungen zu kämpfen.
		Die Daten dieser Biographie stammen größtenteils von der Jay Miner Society, bei der ich mich für die freundliche Überlassung des Textes und des Bildes bedanken möchte.
	www.zock.com /8-Bit/D_Miner.HTML (559 words)

	Jay Miner Interview Pasadena, September 1992.
		Jay Miner is not a man to say "No" to, and it's quite clear that Atari must still be regretting their myopic decision.
		Anyway, Jay still held the concept of an all powerful 16-bit machine but the bills had to be paid.
		Jay says that they were looking for people not just interested in a job, but with a passion for the Amiga (codenamed Lorraine after the president's wife) and the immense potential it offered.
	www.geocities.com /mslgeo/JayMinere.html (4368 words)

	Interview with Jay Miner
		Cloanto's interview with the late Jay Miner, "father of the Amiga", was recorded in Paris on the evening of February 9th, 1990, during the 1990 Amiga Developers Conference.
		Running the original tape, Jay Miner's voice initially sounds like that of a young man, and at the end it is more similar to that of a cartoon character speaking very quickly.
		After the first picture was shot, Jay pulled another pair of glasses from his jacket, and it was agreed that the second photograph, with the metal-frame glasses, was the better one.
	www.amigaforever.com /news-events/19900209jm-interview (331 words)

	AmigaOS.com, the ultimate site for Amiga-Operating Systems (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jay knew some investors (the stories say that it where three dentist out of Florida who wanted to invest a total amount of $ 7 million in the company, but other stories say that it where some millionaires out of Texas) and together they established Hi-Toro in Santa Clara (USA).
		Jay Miner took his place in as Vice President and left Xymos where he still worked.
		The technical staff (including Jay Miner) wanted a full 68000 (16 bit processor of Motorola, the best CPU available in 1982) super computer, but the financial backers of the project, thus the management, wanted just the promised game computer.
	www.lightrave.vuurwerk.nl /amigaos/history/amhistory1982.html (554 words)

	Amiga - Wikipédia
		Jay Miner, connu comme le père de l’Amiga travaille chez Atari sur des ordinateurs comme l’Atari 800.
		Jay Miner s’attaqua au projet de console, qui prit le nom de Lorraine, le nom de la femme du PDG de Hi-Toro Dave Morse.
		Le premier prototype d’Amiga fut conçu par Jay Miner et RJ Mical sous le nom de Lorraine.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amiga (2569 words)

	On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Miner talked to his boss at Xymos, Bert Braddock, and they found a group of dentists to invest in the new venture.
		Miner made sure to add a clause to his contract that said he could bring his dog Mitchy into work everyday.
		Pong was codenamed Darlene, the Atari 2600 was codenamed Stella, the Atari 400 was Candy, and the Atari 800 was Colleen.
	www.commodorebook.com /view.php?content=ch019 (2507 words)

	Histoire de l'Amiga : 1982
		Jay Miner, qui travaillait chez Zimast mais qui rêvait toujours de créer un ordinateur à base de 68000, accueillit positivement cette proposition.
		Jay Miner voulu créer une machine avec des ports d'extension et d'autres matériels qui en faisait un tueur de PC.
		De son côté, Jay Miner n'était pas enthousiasmé par ce mot, il pensait que son origine espagnole (traduit par "petite amie") ne collerait pas avec l'idée que l'on se faisait de l'informatique.
	obligement.free.fr /articles/amiga_histoire_1982.php (938 words)

	AmigaIRC
		Jay Miner, realizing that people might someday get bored with 2-color characters that looked like something Picasso might have painted back in his cubist period, suggested the company fund development of a new computer based upon the Motorola 68000 processor.
		Jay was all for forming a new company because he still had visions of a Motorola based computer in his head.
		Jay convinced these dentists that he was their man, and they dumped their wheelbarrows of cash on him (No word on whether they threw in a free root canal).
	amigairc.amigarevolution.com /history1.html (2374 words)

	Jay Miner - Biography of Jay Miner
		Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous microprocessor designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips.
		Jay always took his dog "Mitchy" (a cockapoo) with him wherever he went.
		While he worked at Atari, Mitchy even had her own ID-badge, and Mitchy's paw print is visible on the inside of the first few Amiga 1000 cases alongside the signatures of the engineers who worked on it.
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /jay-miner (641 words)

	Jay G. Miner - Visionary
		Jay Miner was a brilliant computer hardware designer and is remembered as father of the Amiga.
		There is now an organization called the "Jay Miner Society" that is dedicated to making advanced computer systems that are user oriented and continues to promote the advancement of the Amiga computer and its loyal user base.
		Jay: "The story starts in the early 1980`s with a company not originally called Amiga, but Hi Toro, which was started by Dave Morris, our president, but before all that I used to work with Atari and I wanted to do a 68000 machine with them.
	www.heartbone.com /comphist/JayMiner.html (5252 words)

	Amiga: Live Another Day ExtremeTech - Find Articles
		Jay Miner worked at Atari for from 1977 to 1979, designing the Atari 400 and 800 computers.
		Miner suggested to management that the company look into using the 16-bit Motorola 68000 processor -- but he was turned down.
		Miner spent the next three years designing specialized chips for cardiac pacemakers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdext/is_200301/ai_ziff36004 (337 words)

	Jay Miner : Freebase - The World's Database
		Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994), was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips and as the "father of the Amiga".
		Miner started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker.
		After working on the TIA he headed up the design of the follow-on chip set that would go on to be the basis of the Atari 8-bit family of home computer, known as ANTIC and CTIA.
	www.freebase.com /view/en/jay_miner (279 words)

	Bio-Miner, JayC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Miner was born on April 28, 1875 near Tontogany, Wood County, OH, the son of Jacob and Louise (Finkenbeiner) Miner.
		At some point in time, Jay began to suffer from stomach pain and ‘rheumatism.’ In 1931, said a newspaper, when he was age 55, his health problems problems had become so severe that:
		Jay was buried at Union Hill Cemetery near Tontogany near his parents and grandparents.
	www.minerd.com /bio-miner,_jayc.htm (197 words)

	About Jay Miner
		Mitchy saw plenty in the years Jay Glenn Miner helped companies put metal-oxide semiconductors to good use before he died of complications related to kidney failure at the age 62 on June 20 in a Mountain View hospital.
		Miner brought his bride to California and earned his electrical engineering degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958.
		Miner's sister, Joyce Beers, gave him one of her kidneys in 1990, it gave him four more years.
	elwoodb.free.fr /Amiga/JMS/jay-miner.html (557 words)

	Amiga Complete History
		Jay Miner led the hardware development team, while Dale Luck and his group concentrated on getting the OS working through software simulation.
		Although it is considered to be technically inferior and was not considered to be a suitable follow-up to the newly renamed Amiga 1000, Jay Miner was pleased with the direction that the high-end models were being taken, with an emphasis upon expandability.
		The liquidation of Commodore was followed by the death of Jay Miner, and the QNX announcement was tempered by Fleecy Moss being 'let go'.
	www.trekstersdomain.com /amiga_complete_history.htm (17850 words)

	'The "father" of the Amiga Jay Glenn Miner became 73 years today' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jay Glenn Miner was born on May the 31st 1932 in Prescott, Arizona.
		He is said to be the father of the Amiga, because he was the original Amiga development team leader and cofounder of Amiga Corp. in Los Gatos.
		Jay Glenn Miner passed away on June the 20th 1994 in Mountain View, California due to renal failure.
	www.amiga-news.de /en/news/AN-2005-05-00125-EN.html (99 words)

	Jay Miner
		Miner's dream to design a low-cost machine that could run several programs simultaneously, handle video and do it all in color.
		Jay Miner, Dave Morse and RJ Mical got together in the early 80s and after securing some funding, set themselves up in Silicon Valley.
		Still, the Amiga is a beautiful thing, and while it may be on life support, it is clearly not dead, for as recent years have shown, you don't necessarily have to have commercial backing to survive as a computing platform.
	www.rabayjr.com /jay_miner.htm (5983 words)

	Jay Miner at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FLAGGING gold miner Newcrest yesterday admitted that net profit for the new financial year would fail to meet market expectations, sending its shares tumbling by more than 5 per cent.
		Thrills and drills as miner calls a halt to trading
		The stock, which trades under the AUM code and which had closed on Tuesday at $5.25, hit $10 soon after the...
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Jay_Miner.html (682 words)

	'Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994)'
		This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was born.
		Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world and as the father of the Amiga.
		Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure.
	www.amiga-news.de /en/news/AN-2003-06-00007-EN.html (137 words)

	Jay Miner Interview
		The 1992 AUI interview with Jay Miner has become an important artifact to understand the pre-Commodore era of the Amiga, and learn about the development of the Lorraine prototype.
		However, it was not the first time the magazine had interviewed the man behind the machine- Jay had also gave the magazine an exclusive interview four years previous.
		At this point in time he was still bitter about the decisions made by Commodore and the direction that they took the Amiga.
	www.amigahistory.co.uk /jayminerinterview.html (154 words)

	Emory Prevention Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kathy Miner, Jay Bernhardt and Iris Smith provide expertise and leadership to guide the Training and Education, Communications and Dissemination, and Evaluation core areas, respectively.
		Miner is a past president of the Georgia Public Health Association, has strong ties to public health officials throughout the state, and is a much sought-after trainer and educator for the CDC, state government, and other organizations.
		Jay M. Bernhardt, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in BSHE at the RSPH and Director of the Center for Public Health Communications at Emory University.
	www.sph.emory.edu /~pmcgove/about/faculty.html (673 words)

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		Miner said the Council can waive the ordinance for a month if it so desires.
		The general understanding was that Jay Miner would meet with Earl Hyatt and decide whether or not some of these things can be done.
		It was suggested at the agenda-setting meeting that the idea be presented to the CAPC because they are allowed to spend their money (or things that can promote Eureka Springs.
	www.cityofeurekasprings.org /CCM/1997/97ccmin10.html (968 words)

	Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog
		At the time I was submerged in and fascinated by Amiga I didn't know much about anything (I still don't but it's more than it used to be).
		Long after Amiga was de facto dead, I've read a lot about its eventful history, including this interview with Jay Miner.
		Jay Miner: "RJ Mical pretty much did it all himself.
	radio.weblogs.com /0109158/2002/09/04.html (536 words)

	Games - Jay Miner
		After working on the TIA he headed up the design of the follow-on chip set that would go on to be the basis of the Atari 8-bit family
		He lived with faulty kidneys for most of his life, according to his wife, and relied on dialysis.
		Four years later, Miner died due to complications from kidney failure at the age of 62, just two months after Commodore declared bankruptcy.
	listing-index.ebay.com /games/Jay_Miner.html (545 words)

	Jay Miner - TheBestLinks.com - Amiga, Atari, Atari 2600, Commodore International, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jay Miner - TheBestLinks.com - Amiga, Atari, Atari 2600, Commodore International,...
		Jay Miner, Amiga, Atari, Atari 2600, Commodore International, Home computer...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Jay_Miner.html (552 words)

	The Amiga or the multimedia revolution (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jay Miner was dreaming about a machine like the Amiga 2000, one with lot of expansion slots.
		Jay Miner cooperated with Ron Nicholson who gave the idea of the blitter.
		HAM was Jay Miner's idea after a visit to some flight simulators.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/reach/435/multirev.html (4292 words)

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