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Intel Seeking Moore's Law Original Publication
ackthpt writes "Gordon Moore's famous prediction, labeled Moore's Law, was originally published in the April 19, 1965 issued of Electronics. Sometime since, he lent out his copy and it has never been returned. Intel would like an original copy of the now defunct magazine and is offering $10,000 for a copy, presumably in good condition. The story is carried on Reuters, and if you happen to have a copy (of your own, not stolen from a museum or library) you may contact Intel via eBay's WantItNow."
Better get them a copy quickly - in a year and a half, the reward goes down to 5,000$, then 2,500$ another year and a half later....
Margaret Thatcher died the other day. It was a sad day, but I like to think that she's looking up at us right now."
That's the last time I use old science magazines to start a fire...
When you pry it from my cold dead hands.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
He didn't keep a copy. I guess he used a typewriter, it was written in 1965 after all.
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
Count me in, if you make it worth my while: Double the prize every 18 months.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Thanks to his evil brother's law (Murphy), everything that could go wrong has, and there are no copies left in existence...
But the price just doubled.
of your own, not stolen from a museum or library
I believe the local vernacular is "shared."
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Is it safe to do business with Intel on Ebay ?
They've got a feedback score of 0. I'm not so sure I'd want to sell to them...
My mom threw out my shoebox filled with old electrical engineering journals last year. And I'm positive I a had a mint-condition copy of the '65 Electronics.
Not too mention the trolling anonymous cowards!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
more like--a penny for moore's thoughts, sir.
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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The price of a missing document doubles every two years, until it exceeds the cost of a new car.
... and it's mileage decreases by the square of its tonnage (in metric tons).
Sadly, the price of a new car goes up by n factorial every year
All figures are in Euros, of course, since the price of a Dollar decreases to n/(n+x) where n is the number of years GWB is in office and x is the trade deficit in trillions of Euros.
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I know I said I'd return it back in '66. I just wanted to read that article on wiring. I swear I'll return it soon, but there's this other article that I want to read first...
It'd be funny to see if someone did post an auction for the magazine and AMD and Intel got in a bidding war. Possibly even funnier if IBM came along and took it right out from under both of them.
No. If you can't imagine the use for more processing power and why there is the drive that perpetuates Moore's Law, perhaps you've forgotten about Gates's Law.
The previous has been a secret message to my comrades.
The Fictitious quote is "640k should be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates didn't say it.
i'd think it'd go in the opposite direction in accordance to Moore's law. the longer you keep it, the more worth it has (as with most of these antique type of things).
so now it's $10,000. next year it'll be $20,000, then $40,000 and so on.
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What happened to the brilliant software designers of that era?
They're busy reading slashdot?
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Let's say that I did have a copy of this magazine. I would expect to be paid for it based on Moore's Law. Its only fitting. So with that in mind, let's see how much it woiuld be:
Magazine came out 40 years ago. Moore's Law says it doubles every 18 months. That's 26.6 doublings. Let's take 26 to make it easy. So thats 2^26 of the price.
I could not find what the cover price was but let's be fair and say $0.10 (10 cents). So thats 2^26 * 10 / 100 = $6,710,886.40. Thats a good deal more than the $10,000.00 they are offering.
I think its a rip-off.
BTW: here is a link to the original article in PDF format.
Bet this
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...my girlfriend wants me to throw out my old computer magazines. I got to show her this. :-)
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Moore stated that computing power would double every 18 months... his estimations were a tad slow -- introducing the new P6!!! released just 5 months after the P5 and over twice as fast *at over 4 times the cost*
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Guess it's high time I paid my first visit to the school's library...