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Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

microtherion wrote: post #170
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The single biggest problem with $1 coins, is that they are of similar size to quarter-dollar coins. 26.50 mm (1.043 in) - $1.00 24.26 mm (0.955 in) - $0.25 They feel almost identical, in your pocket, and the $1 coin is small enough to get stuck in many vending machines. I am not exactly sure of the reason that the mint is so resistant to making the coins a bit bigger (they used to be).

Another, NSFW, problem with $1 coins is that their universal adoption would lead to a lot of bruised strippers.

I hear that they don't accept anything less than a $20 bill, these days...

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by aanet »

derektank wrote: post #3
aanet wrote: post #2

That Steve Jobs coin really looks cool. It's the sculpture of him sitting cross-legged, surrounded by hills of Silicon Valley. I wonder if these coins are available for purchase by the general public? anybody know?

The 2025 set is available directly from the US mint. Presumably the 2026 set will be available next year https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-innovati...

Thanks, all.

This is delightful.

I used to be a coin-collector as a kid. Kinda outgrew the hobby as I grew older. But I still love new/old/unusual coins (among other things). I think I might get my hands on some of these.

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Post by esafak »

keiferski wrote: post #19

The Jobs picture looks to be based on this famous photo of him in an empty house: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/science/jobsalone.jpg

With attribution: https://stevejobsarchive.com/artifact/steve-at-home-sitting-...

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by butlike »

voidUpdate wrote: post #82
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79

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Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

On the US Mint Site I was just looking at the 'Medals', where you CAN have a living person minted onto what they call a medal. Unsure of if it's the same size as a coin, but if it is, you could conceivably try and circulate the medals of living ex-presidents (to great cost to yourself).

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by hirvi74 »

wqaatwt wrote: post #108
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79

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Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

Well Jobs repeated it ~3-4 times without Wozniak (and arguably being a part of making Apple II a huge success was not even his greatest achievement).

What did Jobs actually build himself? My understanding was that man was technically inept.

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Post by hirvi74 »

amelius wrote: post #117
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

Why not the inventors of the transistor? Anyway, at least I'm happy the Nobel prize committee isn't based in the US. Otherwise we'd soon see the Nobel prize for advertising.

Wasn't he a mega racist and eugenicist?

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Post by esafak »

butlike wrote: post #167

Never heard of that Norman Borlaug guy. Sounds like a standup guy from his wikipedia.

Borlaug. Bill Gates talks about him a lot: https://www.gatesnotes.com/the-man-who-fed-the-world

Borland was the software company.

Maybe I missed the joke?

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Post by diego_moita »

When Steve Job died all major newspapers, magazines and television news shows dedicated major space and time to report his death.

One week after someone far more important died: the co-creator of the most influential computer program in history (Unix) and the most influential programming language in history (C). Very few news media outlet reported the death of Dennis M. Ritchie.

I argue that Ritchie's legacy runs deeper and wider than Jobs'. Almost all CPUs and microprocessors existing today run code that was implemented using technologies created by Ritchie, from ABS breaks to satellites. But, even in this forum, many people don't know about him.

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by hirvi74 »

elif wrote: post #104
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

Each state voted on its innovation.

Dolly Parton is the only person of value to ever come out my state (TN).
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