Comments on: Father of the Macintosh, Jef Raskin passes away http://news.techwhack.com/770-father-of-the-macintosh-2353 News from the Tech and IT World Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:53:08 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris Riley http://news.techwhack.com/770-father-of-the-macintosh-2353#comment-1286 Chris Riley Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:40:05 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/770/father-of-the-macintosh-2353/#comment-1286 There are a couple of interesting things here. 1. In most pancreatic cancer it is fatal with 3-9 months (around 28950 out of 29000 per year). When I saw how quickly he died, I guessed it was from pancreatic cancer before reading the ABC news article. ( http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=536750) 2. Steve Jobs had the 'better' form of pancreatic cancer (the more treatable kind) last year. Islet cell. It is somewhat ironic that both had some form of pancreatic cancer. 3. My mom passed away from it in April 1999 and I was one of the founding Board of directors of the leading Pancreatic Cancer charity - see http://www.pancan.org/ for ways you can help from volunteering to anything. There are a couple of interesting things here.

1. In most pancreatic cancer it is fatal with 3-9 months (around 28950 out of 29000 per year). When I saw how quickly he died, I guessed it was from pancreatic cancer before reading the ABC news article. ( http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=536750)
2. Steve Jobs had the ‘better’ form of pancreatic cancer (the more treatable kind) last year. Islet cell. It is somewhat ironic that both had some form of pancreatic cancer.
3. My mom passed away from it in April 1999 and I was one of the founding Board of directors of the leading Pancreatic Cancer charity – see
http://www.pancan.org/ for ways you can help from volunteering to anything.

]]> By: Stuart http://news.techwhack.com/770-father-of-the-macintosh-2353#comment-1285 Stuart Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:33:36 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/770/father-of-the-macintosh-2353/#comment-1285 He was also an accomplished musician. Another brilliant man forced out by Jobs as he built Apple into what it is today...closer than ever to becoming a tiny Microsoft. He was also an accomplished musician. Another brilliant man forced out by Jobs as he built Apple into what it is today…closer than ever to becoming a tiny Microsoft.

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