#Jay Miner Gone!
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I saw this on Usenet and thought I'd better re-post it as I don't recall
seeing it anywhere else around here.
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The man known to all as The Father of the Amiga is gone. I just pulled
this posting off his own BBS, "The Mission", posted there today by
his co-sysop.
Those of you who knew Jay or had met him at the many Amiga shows
he attended, please join me in your own private way and remember
this wonderful guy who gave us all so very much.
Harv
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[From ] Gary Chow [MSG 50 OF 51]
[To ] All [Has Reply 51]
[Date ] Sun 26 Jun 94 13:18
[Subject ] Jay Miner
Jay Miner passed away June 20, 1994, at the El Camino Hospital in
MountainView. The actual cause of death was heart failure, but it was the
result of kidney complications. A private memorial service will be held
in July.
He'll be greatly missed and much remembered.
David Czaya …via AutoPilot
73445,407
>>He'll be greatly missed and much remembered<<
Yes, he will. This makes me very sad. As a community, we have lost
another very good friend.
David, thank you for posting the information. It is very, very sad, but
we did need to know.
Jay was once very, very active in this forum. He was part of our
every-evening conferences for a very long time, and many of us came to
know him through those conferences. He visited Texas a couple of times
during that period, and I was privileged to get to know him personally as
well. Even though he had not been very active in the Amiga community
recently, this is a great loss to us all.
—Betty
David,
Thanks for the posting. We just got word from other sources that Jay had
passed away.
Indeed, we at Scala are going to miss him too.
We hope to keep his last technological achievement (The Amiga), alive, well and
growing in the future. In what form it will take, I don't know. Jeff Porter,
whom all of you knew as Senior Engineer at Commodore, now VP of Engineering
here at Scala, said in the July 1994 issue of "Video Toaster User" and I quote,
"The technology will get licensed to a variety of people. There are many
vertical opportunites in games and cable. The Amiga technology will be the
6502 of the '90s." Maybe so, maybe so.
I think I'll stare at the back of the top cover of my old A1000 and reflect a
bit…
Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.
Ditto John! We knew him as well and he will be greatly missed. Our thoughts go
out to his family and friends. Hopefully he'll be smiling down on us as
together we resurrect the Amiga!
Tom Patrick
InnoVision Technology
Tom,
Sounds like a plan to me.
Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.
John,
me too. I got to meet Misha (Mishi? it's been way too long) when Jay
came down to visit. What a hell of a legacy. And what has it come to.
The Four Seasons of Southern California:
Fire, Flood, Earthquake, and Riot.
Brian,
Its nice to know that you got a chance to meet with him in person. Indeed, he
will be missed.
Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.
This is very sad indeed. Many of us knew of Jay's innovation with the
Atari 800 series of computers, and then to the Amiga. Although I never met
Jay personally, I have the tape "History of the Amiga" and his passion for
his part in the creation of the Amiga is evident. Its too bad he passed
away with the Amiga at such a low point.
// John (Speeding on the Information Superhighway)
\X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
I'm sorry to hear that…..
I used to log onto the Mission fairly regularly, awhile back, and he
seemed like a really neat guy. (Having lost my grandmother last week, I
feel for the family.)
Erik Flom
David,
I know I'll miss him. One of his acts of kindness was to travel
several hundred miles to pay a visit on a precocious kid living in San
Diego and take him to visit the Zoo, while in the midst of his health
problems.
Excuse me, I need to leave the keyboard a bit.
The Four Seasons of Southern California:
Fire, Flood, Earthquake, and Riot.
To All:
I have had the pleasure of both meeting Jay in person at a Ami-Expo in
Chicago and chatting regularly with him when he used to visit the forum.
I used to call his BBS and chat with him on occasions there too. I
haven't called the BBS in a very long time, even tho the BBS Number was
still in my phonebook. Everytime I saw his BBS listing I thought of him
and wondered how he was doing! Now it's too late! Jay was never too busy
or important to help a new Amiga User or even just chat with them!
This is a very sad time for all of us who knew him!
Silence…
We've lost a good man here. A big chunk of the Padre's soul went into the
making of our beloved Amiga. For me, Jay played a pivotal role in helping
find a publisher for PhonePak. He was a really nice guy with an active
imagination and a boatload of enthusiasm. I'll miss him. There's a
strange irony in losing him during such a difficult period for the Amiga.
Then one night in the lobby of the Commodore Hotel…
– Little Feat