Jay Miner
1932 
[USA]
† 1994
He was an integrated circuit designer, best known for developing multimedia chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit families and as the "father of the Amiga".
Contemporary computing celebrities to Jay Miner
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Ray Kassar
1928
New York [USA]
† 2017
Ray Kassar was an American businessman, Chairman and CEO of Atari from 1978 to 1983.
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Jack Tramiel
1928
Lodz [Poland]
† 2012
Polish-born American businessman, famous for founding Commodore International and later serving as CEO of Atari Corp.
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Gordon Moore
1929
San Francisco [USA]
† 2023
He was an American engineer and physicist, co-founder of Intel and author of Moore's Law.
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Jonathan Titus
1935
[USA]
In 1974, he designed the Mark-8, the first 8-bit microcomputer based on the Intel 8008 chip, which could be purchased as a kit for self-assembly.
Its publication in Radio-Electronics magazine demonstrated the editors' interest in microcomputers, and just six months later, in January 1975, they announced the Ed Roberts Altair 8800. -
Ted Dabney
1937
San Francisco [USA]
† 2018
He was the co-founder of the Atari company, along with Nolan Bushnell.
