The History of the Commodore Amiga - Rare Jay Miner Speech AmiExpo 1990
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2020
- Jay Miner is "The Father of the Amiga" This is a rare audio recording of his history of the Amiga speech on March 18th 1990 at AmiExpo East Coast in Washington DC. It is called "The Amiga from the Beginning" I had the pleasure of attending this event and meeting Jay Miner. He enjoyed speaking with members of the Amiga community and was very interested in the user group that I ran called WAUG - The Westchester Amiga User Group. Jay Miner loved user groups and the Amiga community. My dad purchased this audio recording at the end of the event. The tape had been missing in his house for many years - until now. Joe Lowery of AMUSE, who put on AMIExpo, introduces Jay Miner and Mr. Miner speaks about the Amiga's beginning with he and Dave Morse at Hi-toro, their relationship with Commodore, concepts for what he wanted the Amiga to be, the Amiga 1000, 500, and 2000, the history of the custom chips and their function, the history of the boing ball, and so much more. This event is one of my fondest memories. I included all the photos I have from it (which aren't many) including my admission ticket. Being that this is an audio only recording, I wanted some simple visuals to accompany it, so my dad transferred the original audio cassettes to 1/4" open reel. Those are my dad's hands at the beginning and the Dokorder reel to reel machine has been in his basement since I was born. The original recordings weren't very good quality with 60 Hz ground hum, over-modulation, etc.. I re-mastered them the best I could. I think there is something cool about this audio only recording. There is something magical about hearing only Jay Miner's voice. It takes me right back to one of the best days of my life. I hope you enjoy it as well.
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Oh the quality of recording is so much better than I was expecting when I clicked this. Wonderful bit of history Bill!
Jay Miner's great ideas were 30 years ahead! 💪 🤩
Sounds like he was a real humble guy with all that brilliance that he tried to share with us....only the marketing people were the actual road blocks .....this is the problem if you are too brilliant at a time when human comprehension has no clue and is yet to catch up......back then this was bleeding edge technology and in many ways still stands up to todays tech.....what an incredible era !!!!
I would just like to say a big thank you to jay and everyone involved with the creation of the amiga..My younger life was so much more happier and more entertained with an amiga around..I am 51 years old and still have 3 amiga500s in their original boxes..RIP jay.
For one hour and seven min I gone 30 years back in time ... Thank you very much !
The Legend❤️
Back to the past 👍😊
What a great document! and how lucky to have met him 😍
Can you imagine how much better the world would be now, technologically and otherwise, if Jay had the same funding and financial background as Kill Gates back then...?
Wow, so this is so cool. You would buy a reel to reel tape of a keynote speech instead of waiting for it to be uploaded. Thanks for being there, buying the tape, finding it again, normalizing it, and finally...uploading it! I'm on my 2nd playback. It's so amazing how passionate Jay was about his Amiga. How was it like being there? It's also apparent how selling to Commodore was a double edged sword. The Amiga's cutting edge still prevails years after Commodore failed.
Brilliant to hear this Bill, Jay was so dedicated to the Amiga even after he had left it with Commodore. We owe him a lot!
youtube decided to wait until today to show me this! Thanx a lot for sharing this. very interesting window into that time where my source of information was AmigaFormat and CU Amiga magazines.
I absolutely love this and never heard it before. As an Amiga dealer back in the day right through the Escom years, and a NewTek dealer, this made my heart melt..... except for the guy coughing....
Oh!
Such fond memories of my first and second computers (an A-500 in 1991, and later, an A-2000 equipped with a 'PAR Board' -- personal animation recorder.) The Amiga is what got me into 3D object modeling and animation which I've been doing since then (31 years). Deluxe Paint introduced me to digital art. Some of the team that developed VideoScape went on to develop Lightwave 3d specifically for the Amiga platform, which is still my primary 3D app which I started using on a Windows PC back in 2000. My TH-cam channel (caddyjoint96) carries twenty of my Lightwave videos including a few of my earliest ones from the 1990s compiled on my Amiga PAR board which dumps to video tape, which I recently digitized into MPEGs in order to upload to TH-cam. The Amiga computer will forever remain in my heart.
Thank you Bill, Jay was a History maker and this speak is also History in the making over the First super computer. Such a Legend.
Wow, what a treasure! I cannot thank you enough for sharing this Bill, much love.
Growing up in Puerto Rico, my mom always made the joke that I was hidden away in my bedroom with my Amiga.
I've been waiting a few days to listen to this as I wanted to sit down and absorb it without distractions, and indeed this is some very nice commentary from the legendary Jay Miner. Very enjoyable and thank you for the the time it took to restore and produce.
I still remember our VIC-20 with cassette drive!