It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Amiga Corporation. (Discuss) Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Amiga Corporation was a computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi-Toro. ...
May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ...
1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...
June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...
Integrated circuit showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery A monolithic integrated circuit (also known as IC, microchip, silicon chip, computer chip or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) which has been manufactured in the surface...
Multimedia is the use of several media (e. ...
BS, Bs or bs is an abbreviation with multiple meanings, including: Bachelor of Science degree Backspace and the backspace control character in the C0 control code set Backstab, often used in video games with the phrase no bs (no backstabbing) to deter people who would attack their own allies Bahamas...
EECS, pronounced eeks or sometimes eeh eeh cee ess, is an abbreviation for It is a designation used at some universities including MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. ...
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
 Jay Miner Miner started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker. Image File history File links JayMiner. ...
See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ...
A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the hearts natural pacemaker) is a medical device designed to regulate the beating of the heart. ...
He moved to Atari in the late 1970s. One of his first successes was to combine an entire breadboard of components into a single chip, known as the TIA. The TIA was the display hardware for the Atari 2600, which would go on to sell millions. 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 CTIA. For the concept Atari (当ãŸã‚Š) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
This article deals with the device used in electronics labs. ...
The Television Interface Adapter (TIA) is the custom chip that is the heart of the Atari 2600 games console and was created by Jay Miner of Amiga fame. ...
The Atari 2600, released in 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. ...
An Atari 800XL, one of the most popular machines in the series. ...
TRS-80 Color Computer II The home computer is a consumer-friendly word for the second generation of microcomputers (the technical term that was previously used), entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s. ...
AntiC (or JLint) is a programming tool for finding programming errors in source code. ...
The Color Television Interface Adapter is the graphics chip used in the Atari 400 and Atari 800 home computers. ...
In the early 1980s Jay, along with other Atari staffers, had become fed up with management and decamped. They set up another chipset project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga Corporation), where they could have some creative freedom. There, they started to create a new Motorola 68000-based games console, codenamed Lorraine, that could be upgraded to a computer. To raise money for the Lorraine project, Amiga Corp. designed and sold joysticks and game cartridges for popular game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, as well as an odd input device called the Joyboard, essentially a joystick the player stood on. Atari continued to be interested in the team's efforts throughout this period, and funded them with $500,000 in capital in return for first use of their resulting chipset. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
Amiga Corporation was a computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi-Toro. ...
The Motorola 68000 is a 32 bit CISC microprocessor, the first member of a successful family of microprocessors from Motorola, which were all mostly software compatible. ...
For other uses, see Joystick (disambiguation). ...
The Atari 2600, released in 1977, is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges instead of having one or more games built in. ...
A CBS ColecoVision unit The ColecoVision was Coleco Industries third-generation home video game console, released in August of 1982. ...
The Joyboard is a joystick for the feet. ...
In 1984 Warner Brothers sold Atari to Jack Tramiel, formerly head of Commodore International. Tramiel learned of the Amiga efforts at that point, and decided to use it in his own 32-bit machines. Knowing that Amiga was about to go bankrupt, he demanded an extremely low royalty rate. They approached Commodore instead, who immediately purchased the entire company. Tramiel sued Amiga for not returning the $500,000 before the agreed deadline, however Commodore stepped in and gave them US$1M to pay their debts. Warner Bros. ...
Jack Tramiel (born 1928) is a businessman, famous for founding Commodore International, manufacturer of the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga home computers. ...
Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ...
 The original Amiga (1985)
 Jay Miner's signature from the top cover of a Commodore Amiga 1000 computer, his masterpiece. Jay worked at Commodore-Amiga for several years, in Los Gatos (CA). They made good progress at the beginning, but as Commodore management changed, they became marginalised and the original Amiga staff was fired or left out on a one-by-one basis, until the entire Los Gatos office was closed. Miner later worked as a consultant for Commodore until it went bankrupt. Image File history File links Amiga_1000. ...
Image File history File links Amiga_1000. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1076x788, 391 KB) Summary Jay Miners signature and Mitchs paw print from the top cover of a revision A Commodore Amiga. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1076x788, 391 KB) Summary Jay Miners signature and Mitchs paw print from the top cover of a revision A Commodore Amiga. ...
He was known as the 'Padre' (father) of the Amiga among Amiga users.
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. A Cockapoo or Cockerpoo is a cross-bred dog, created by crossing a Cocker Spaniel and a Poodle, in most cases the Miniature Poodle. ...
He lived with faulty kidneys for most of his life, according to his wife, and relied on dialysis. His sister donated one of her own. Four years later, Miner died due to complications from kidney failure at the age of 62, just two months after Commodore declared bankruptcy. Human kidneys viewed from behind with spine removed The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. ...
In medicine, dialysis is a type of renal replacement therapy which is used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function due to renal failure. ...
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