I saw where somebody edited his Wikipedia page yesterday to indicate his death, and I checked the editor's IP address and it came from the area where the Tramiel clan live. I figure a family member reported his death on there only for Wikipedia to later delete it thinking it was a joke. No joke. One of the fathers of the computer industry is no longer with us.
And I'm playing devil's advocate here when I say Jack Tramiel did not run Atari into the ground. If it weren't for Jack buying Atari's consumer division, the 2600 and 7800 would have died way sooner than they actually did, and there would be no Atari ST or Atari Lynx or Atari Jaguar. If it weren't for Jack, Atari's consumer division would have likely either been liquidated or sold for pennies on the dollar to a company like Nintendo. Atari's downfall began when Jack stepped away from day-to-day operations and put Sam in charge. I mean no disrespect to Sam in his time of grief, but I have to call a spade a spade. Sam just didn't have his father's business mind.