Update: Jack’s passing has been confirmed ^[1].

Jack Tramiel, founder ^[2] of Commodore Portable Typewriter Company which later became Commodore Business Machines and then Commodore International, has reportedly died.  Though the major news services have yet to pick up on it, posts ^[3] are beginning to appear on the popular Atari boards and on Twitter ^[4].  Tramiel at one point was interested in buying the young Apple Computer, Inc but the deal fell through.  Jack resigned from Commodore in 1984 and later that year, purchased a controlling interest in the Atari home computer and gaming divisions of Warner Communications.

An odd bit of trivia: though both Woz and Tramiel were early movers and shakers in the industry, and their companies were direct competitors in the home computer market, the two didn’t meet until 2007 ^[5].