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At the beginning of his activity, Jay Miner leads many projects in the field of medicine automation (including the famous “ pacemaker ” who had remote control), he also participated in the creation of the first digital voltmeter and calculator in the USA

In late 1970, Jay Miner took a job at Atari . Here he gets the position of head of the department engaged in "folding" the technological set of components into a single chip , called TIA (from the English Television Interface Adapter ). This chip responded to the Atari 2600 for displaying the image on the screen, and brought Atari its first millions of dollars. At the end of the TIA project, Jay heads up the creation of the world's first chipset . If he managed this project to the end, he could well have become the “father” of the chipset known as CTIA and ANTIC , which is the “heart” of the 8-bit Atari family of computers.

However, in early 1980, Jayner, along with other full-time employees, Atari states that “he’s fed up with incompetent management” (literally) and leaves the company. The employees who left Atari establish their own Hi-Toro company (later renamed to Amiga Corporation ) in Santa Clara , in which they expect to work in accordance with their ideas about the freedom of creativity. Here they begin work on the Lorraine computer, which was supposed to outperform any home-use computers that existed at the time. Jay Miner, as project manager, was forced to look to investors, who demanded that he create a game console, and only the collapse of the video game market in 1983 allows him to carry out his plans and create a personal computer . To attract funds to the project, Amiga Corporation also develops joysticks and sells game cartridges for the popular Atari 2600 and ColecoVision game consoles . At the same time, the legendary JoyBoard joystick (“surfboard”) is being developed, on which one could stand or sit “in the lotus position”. The control was carried out by moving the weight of the player JoyBoard was well received by manufacturers of slot machines and played its part in concealing key developments that the Amiga Corporation was engaged in.

In 1984, Warner Brothers are tired of the computer business, and Atari is sold to a single person interested in it - Jack Tramiel , who previously held the post of head of Commodore International .

Also in 1984, Jack Tramiel invested $ 500,000 in a Lorraine computer project and hoped to use its results to create a family of 32-bit computers that (according to his plans) would replace the Atari that was sold at that time. However, when the company runs out of funds, the entire Lorraine project is acquired by Commodore , which offered better terms than Tramiel put forward. In response, Tramiel sues Lorraine developers for the $ 500,000 they invested, but Commodore allocates $ 1 million to Amiga Corporation to pay off their debts, and thus settles the dispute. Lorraine (representing at this time several prototypes connected by wires) is “rolled up” into one motherboard, gets the case developed by Commodore engineers and is released to the market under the name Amiga 1000 . This computer becomes the first personal computer in the world endowed with multimedia capabilities: an operating system of preemptive multitasking , a graphical user interface, a manipulator like a mouse , an interactive hypertext help, an image sufficient to display a video sequence ( PAL / NTSC , 4096 colors ) and 4-channel stereo sound .

Jay Miner has worked for Commodore Corporation for several years, which are held in an office located in Los Gatos , California . The development of the Amiga under Jay's command is successful, more and more new models appear, pleasing and surprising users, until the very day when the Commodore shareholders' meeting decides to change management. The new leadership is heading for complete isolation of the development team, strict protection of commercial secrets, active struggle with companies developing peripherals for Amiga , and even just Amiga sellers in other buildings. Many of the leading engineers are dismissed without reason or “on their own will”, the office in Los Gatos is closed. Such a policy will soon lead to the bankruptcy of a colossal corporation with seemingly innumerable factories, factories, shops and warehouses of finished products throughout the world. However, after the closure of his office, Jay Miner does not abandon his brainchild and works as a Commodore consultant until its very bankruptcy .

Based on the biography, Jay Miner was considered the “Padre” (father) Amiga , both among Amiga users and in the media .

He had funny qualities. For example, wherever he went and wherever he worked, his faithful dog Cockapoo Mitchi was always with him. When Jay worked at Atari , his pet dog had his corporate badge, which was presented at the entrance. An imprint of a dog's paw can be seen on the inside of the body of the first Amiga 1000 produced by Commodore , next to the signature of Jay Miner and the few talented engineers who created this computer.

Most of his life, Jay Miner lived with a congenital kidney defect (his wife, Caroline Poplavsky, suffered the same defect) and relied on dialysis for treatment. His sister, Joyce Beers, donated one of his own healthy kidneys. Four years after surgery, June 20, 1994 , Jay Miner dies of renal failure in a hospital in the city of Mountain View , California , 62 years old. This happens two months after the bankruptcy of the Commodore corporation (according to the yellow press , Jay Miner suffered a heart attack on the grounds of the Commodore bankruptcy ).

Jay Miner and Carolina Miner (maiden name Poplavsky) were childless. After the death of Jay Miner, his nephews remained: Linda Heisig ( Linda Heisig ) living in the city of Holt , California and Robin Beers ( Robin Beers ) living in San Diego , California .

June 20 each year in the Unitary Church of the Universalist Palo Alto (505 E. Charleston Road) at 13:00 there is a service in which Jay Miner is commemorated. Among the one million names inscribed on the plate number 2 on board the spacecraft Stardust are the names Amiga and Commodore Amiga.

• Society of memory of J. Miner (eng.)
• Jay Miner as a Seer (eng.)

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