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[News] Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of FameANN.lu
Posted on 12-Aug-2000 13:33 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä16 comments
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Computer Museum of America has put up an online form where people can vote for up to 10 nominees to be included in the Computer Hall of Fame. Jay Miner is deservedly on the list of nominees so get voting! :)

Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 1 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Coz on 11-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
Spread this around... Jay only has about 2% so far!
Coz
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 2 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by me on 11-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
At the bottom of the page we could tell them about other persons from the original Amiga-team. Especially Carl Sassenrath, author of Exec!!! (Now founder and author or Rebol, www.rebol.com.)
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 3 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by I cast my vote :) on 11-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Coz):
I think Chuck Peddle should have been on there too - as he is the person who designed the Commodore PET. I also think Dave Haynie should be on there for all of his innovations in the Amiga 3000 (Zorro 3, cpu expansion, autoconfiguration etc).
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 4 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 11-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
Mac users are invading...
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 5 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 11-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (I cast my vote :)):
>...Amiga 3000...
I think it's more like a sub-innovation, not historical pioneering. If you start go for it, they will not take us serious, when we want to propose more important personalities, who made things like the first true multitasking OS for desktop computers.
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 6 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Gary Goldberg on 11-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
If you want to vote more than once, refuse cookies.
I voted once with my ISP via a Mac, then once via AOL
on the same Mac. So far, so good, but when I tried
to vote from AOL using a different screen name it
told me I'd already voted. I figure it must have put
a cookie on my Powerbook.
I've been able to vote twice with my A4000 using
Aweb 3.3 with cookies set at "never"
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 7 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
Ted Waitt is on the list :)
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 8 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Teemu I. Yliselä on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (I cast my vote :)):
How about RJ Mical? Apart from Amiga he also worked on the Atari Lynx and 3DO machines. OK, so they flopped, but still they were important products for their time.
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 9 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by David Shipman on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
Amusingly Steve Allen is listed but Bill Gates is not :)
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 10 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Teemu I. Yliselä on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (David Shipman):
That's because William Gates III is already in the Hall of Fame. And it's Paul Allen, not Steve. Only Apple execs are called "Steve". :)
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 11 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Teemu I. Yliselä on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Coz):
Now Jay's got almost 4% and the 7th most votes so far! He's catching Linus Torvalds soon. :)
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 12 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Gary Goldberg):
Do you certain that the cookies not just for to note you, and they can check multiple votes by some internal lists, eliminating your all votes later?
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 13 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Emilio Desalvo on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
All I got were Java errors...
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 14 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by MAS on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Teemu I. Yliselä):
What about Steve Ballmer?
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 15 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous Coward on 12-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Coz):
The existing members are somewhat lame, although it might reflect what the web was thinking the last time things came up for vote. My picks off the list would have to include Turing, Zuse, and the ABC guys, and Jay, the Woz, and Nolan Bushnell; the microchip pioneers and the guy who conceived packet-based networking are also deserving. Lady Ada is an obvious pick, but she's waited long enough, so she can hold off for the next round :)
It's a shame how the businessmen (Gates, Jobs) have more recognition than the people who actually went out and did the work.
Vote Jay Miner for the Computer Hall of Fame : Comment 16 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by John Chandler on 13-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Anonymous):
Bizarrely, when I voted I was told I'd already voted before and that my vote(s) had been disqualified. Which is a bit annoying.
John
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