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Moore's Law Original Issue Found
Daemon writes "BBC News reports that a copy of the original issue of Electronics magazine in which Moore's Law was first published has been found under the floorboards of a Surrey engineer's home. David Clark had kept copies of the magazine for years, despite pleas from his wife to throw them away." Intel, it seems, has its bounty fulfilled.
That's going to be one hell of a return on investment for him.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
THATS why I never throw anything away!
One day its going to pay off big!
Starsucks
Until last Wednesday, when his RSS news reader popped up with headlines from various websites with the news of the reward.
:)
:)
He uses an RSS feeder for his news yet he stores 30 year old magazines in garbage bags under his floor boards.
Nice
On a slightly related topic... He said he's using the $10k to pay for his daughters weddings. I want to know where they are getting married and how I can afford a wedding for 5k or less
That's why it's sometimes best NOT to listen to someone's nagging.
Now we have an excuse to keep porn when they invent robot girlfriends for us!
"But darling, someone could want it in 10 years time amd get us alot of money"
"...not all stuck together like that they won't!"
I like muppets.
was probably worth more than the money, by a long shot.
I would auction them off at Christies with a starting Bid of 10K , let Intel fight for them as im fairly sure they could be worth a fair bit more than intel is offering as a colection and if not then intel gets them for 10 grand.
Cough or he could do the moral and ethical thing of giving them to the local library for nothing
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
pack rats everywhere now have a reason to explain their habit!
playboy did something similiar, I'd be all set.
Not too different from the pleas of my friends mom. Except he had comic books, such as Spiderman #1. His mom tossed them long ago as they were a "fire hazard". Pfffft. Women.
Can you please return your copy of the magzine to the library?
The reward has been claimed and there is nothing for you to profit off of now.
All those poor folks buying stolen library copies on ebay for nothing.
Dear Intel and Slashdot,
Nobody Cares!
Signed,
Everybody.
Converting from $10,000 USD only yields 5,229.05 GBP. Someone got ripped off!
But still, good find for him, and provides inspiration for pack rats to never throw anything away.
This was reported on CBC Radio last week.
maybe she'll be a bit more ok with my packrat qualities.
Anonymous Coward, why are you always right? :(
Intel has had hundreds of emails offering copies--Mr Clark was the first one they accepted. The magazine is worth 10K to Intel only, no one else.
Imagine how many fortunes have been burned or tossed out on landfill because of whiny mothers tossing out old comics and magazines.
when there are umpteen copies in libraries all over the world? It is not as if only ONE copy survived!
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Or maybe they'll put it among Moore's other images (doesn't show up currently).
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I don't get it.
There are several of these on eBay.
Is there something extra special about this one issue found under the floorboards?
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
that now he has a few quid hes throwing the wife away.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I think I'll keep a copy of this posting. You never know when it might be useful.
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i find it amazing that the publisher doesnt have a couple copies in storage someplace, granted that is a lot of magazines...
always mosh clockwise
the libraries are safe until Intel want the next issue.
Jonathanjk.com
It was a joke
1.) Place magazines in sub-flooring 2.) ??? 3.) Sell one to Intel 4.) PROFIT!!!
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If more people kept comic books and magazines for 40 years or so, then they would not be worth so much.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
Me: That stash of magazines under my bed... It's not what it looks like!
Dad: Well, I hope not. Because it looks like you're masturbating to a 35-year old copy of Electronics magazine!
(Credit due to bash.org.)
... to my fiancee! She has been driving me nuts to get rid of my comic book and playboy collection, but just think about how happy she would be with $10,000! (Notice I say she, I would never see a dime...)
Fool! He should have held onto it. Moore's Law Law postulates that magazine issues referencing Moore's Law double in value every 18 months.
"leave those Scientific American magazines alone!" But no, she has to throw them out! :(
"You mortals are so obtuse." -Q
I have Hardcore Pornstars issue 1 (Willamette on cover, Jan. 1970) in pristine condition and in its original shrinkwrap. I thought you might be interested.
Wait -- you said "dual core processors," not "Hardcore Pornstars." Nevermind.
Letter
Causing that kind of media frenzy about how they were right once fourty years ago is priceless. Great job on some PR firm's part.
My little site.
What an idiot, he's going to give it to Intel for $10K, atleast up it to 40.
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"Who's laughing now, biotch!"
...what i should do with those pokemon cards i kept.....
what....? they used to be popular...!
The following theory
"Moore observed an exponential growth in the number of transistors per integrated circuit and predicted that this trend would continue."
Thats going to be one big ass piece of hardware.
But , arent computers and systems , and ultimately the hardware in them, getting smaller?
"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. "
hahahaahah true.
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I used to keep my old Apple II computer magazines religiously. My parents thought I was a packrat, but it came in handy one day.
It was high school graduation and the end-of-the-year literary magazine came out. One of the students had won 2nd place for SciFi writing in the state, and his story was in that magazine. I started reading it and got sick to my stomach... I had read this somewhere before, after an hour searching through the stacks of magazines, I found the 7-year-old issue. When the principal presented the evidence to the guy, he had never heard of the magazine -- he found it on some BBS somewhere and didn't even have to retype it to plagiarize it.
He had used the paper for some simple english paper, but his teachers liked it so much they pressured him to submit it to the writing contest. He didn't have the balls to admit what he did.
On a nicer note, I still have the copy of Softalk that introduced the Apple Lisa. Fun reading!
This probably is not the only copy. Is it? There might be somebody else (perhaps the guy who stole the copy from the library) with a copy and Intel won't even bother with auctioning for it.
What is so immoral about what he is doing? He did not steal it from someone. Money is money. I fail to see how this could be immoral.
that Linus has an alternative for bitkeeper, I'll now be able to sleep at night knowing that all the world's problems have been solved. Hey, aren't we overdue for some Google news?
Apparently the publisher has since gone out of business (That was the reason given before for the search). My suspicion was that Intel was trying to use "news" to get a bit of free advertising around the time of their dual-core release. Also this would help to differentiate Intel from AMD in people's minds.
After all, people will think "Intel has that guy who predicts fast chips."
the Jan. 1975 Popular Electronics have been selling for over $50 for a long time.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
"Honey, why do you keep all that old junk?"
"... I keep you, don't I?"
Did you know that the dollar sign must precede the number? As so: $250.
Gbabes or something...
Does Playboy even *have* articles?
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
... except that we got the site for $250. The site we chose was the Borges Ranch, owned by the City of Walnut Creek. It's quiet, has lots of space, and is up in the hills. Nice & quiet. ;)
;)
;)
I was about to blow about $500 on the catered BBQ, though..
Photos? A photographer cousin volunteered. We weren't going to do a DJ, just iTunes & an mp3 collection. Hey, we were kinda broke at the time..
(sidenote: Girl & I didn't get married, but are now just good friends.)
The *new* girlfriend might be a bit more expensive to marry. Guess I'll find out one day.
Now that her husband wants a divorce, she's asking a lot more than $10k for alimony.
"You know how much the Department of Sanitation charges just to remove all the garbage my soon-to-be -ex husband collected?"
If you're old enough to get screwed, you should be old enough to get hammered.
I'm sorry, but a true geek would have had each of his beloved Electronics magazines soaked in a deacidification solution, carefully and lovingly dried, and then hermetically sealed in Mylar bags (with acid-free cardboard inserts, which he would have changed out every 3-5 years) and then stored in a cool, dry, dark basement.
A "true geek"? No, my friend, he certainly was not!
off for you think?? let's say if a certain person had one..? ;)
Just for the record, I can only find 1 on eBay - that one. That one has also been taken apart and each page is in a binder sleeve.
the jade monkey, the road maps, and the ice scraper.
/simpsons
LOL - Mod Parent up. Aint that the truth brotha
preach it!
"...the real expense is the bride..."
No, the real expense is what the bride wants to spend. I don't know many women who are going to settle for the *minimal* when it comes to their wedding.
i TOLD my mom NOT to throw out my baseball cards...
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
According to the article, it says: The "law" was adopted after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote in the 1965 Electronics magazine article that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 24 months. Now, if I remember right, that figure is supposed to be every 18 months! But it isn't. After a little looking, I found out that he really did say every two years. Interesting, don't you think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
That seems to happen quite a bit. Okay, I'm going to get modded offtopic, but too bad, these are things that actually matter in life; isn't it interesting how it's the push to go to a further level that often ends with people dissolving relationships entirely (the romantic side of the equation, I mean)?
I suppose I'm making assumptions I don't really know about your situation, but it does seem to be a motif in life, those final few pushes shake things apart instead of being the final glue. Interesting note on human interaction, is it not?
[insert snide and dismissive comment on levels of human interaction on slashdot]
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
Darn... My wife just said that I can't use this to hoard my old PC and electronics magazines under the floorboards...
**sighs**
I'm afraid guys... its off to the recycling center.
-- The universe began. Life started on a billion worlds...
-- Except on one where stupidity was there first.
.....Is that you?
Well, yeah. :) The actual planning didn't take a whole long time either. I think that a lot of people have wedding issues when they go for overblown expensive weddings and have family members stepping in to "help plan the wedding." A co-worker of my ex actually *quit her job* to 'plan her wedding.' Yes, she quit a full time job to sit at home and go through wedding planning stuff.. for a wedding that was a year off.
;)
I avoided that level of insanity.
transition did is proof positive that newsmen have no souls.
I can't believe no one has made a reference to the Amazing Stories episode with Mark Hamill, when a fairy visited him and told him to keep everything and never throw anything away. His parents threw him out, and he spent his life in a stationwagon until he was ancient, when a man offered to buy his decades-old toys for hundreds of thousands of dollars...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
(Alternatively, maybe this one developed AI and hid under the floorboards. After all, it was found, rather than remembered.)
Seriously, the difference is likely quality (I suspect the edition found is likely to be mint or very close, the versions on e-bay probably aren't) and authentication (e-bay is OK, but if you're throwing $10,000 around, you want to be a little more sure about what you're getting - or if you're getting).
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The reverse is very common as well. My wife and I broke up a week before we got engaged.
Sometimes you just need something drastic to force the issue one way or the other.
Doug
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
That he got the magazines from a library which was throwing them out. Why would they want them back (other than to claim the $10000 prize.)
the bride pays for you!
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Keep something long enough and it will eventually be worth $10,000 to someone.
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Or is "humously" an accepted variation?
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- Unzipping really big files takes a lot of time...
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
If only he had read the article, he'd know that!
The true breaking threshold of most anything isn't truly known until exposed to stresses well beyond most 'typical' uses.
I humbly suggest that planning (and executing) a wedding qualifies most adequately as a 'stress beyond typical'.
I deal with printers and publishers daily. Those places would drown if they saved a copy of everything they ever did. (Digitally OR in print. One year's worth of original layout files for 20-page newspapers is over 3 gig.)
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This is why I print out hard copies of slashdot every day. I'm waiting to cash in on my original edition of CmdrTaco calling the iPod lame.
I'm not a smorgasbord.
I was going to say something along the lines of "but how could you have gotten engaged if you broke up" ... but then I got it. Duh. :) Friday afternoon!
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
Does anybody know if Intel avoided eBay final value fees by bypassing eBay on the want-it-now transaction thing? The want-it-now ad is gone from the eBay site.
That marriage is going to be in a world of trouble.
The poor husband-to-be is not going to be able to compete with the woman's dream vision of what her marriage should be.
If it takes her a year to make just the wedding perfect, I can see her going to pieces if the slightest thing is wrong, and being completely unable to handle the fact that she can't plan the rest of her life in a relationship so one-sidedly.
Some people lose fact of what's important, I guess.
I want to know where they are getting married and how I can afford a wedding for 5k or less
My wife and I got married it cost:
$10 - Diesel to drive up to the observatory and back home again,
$520 - speeding ticket and invalid licence fine (motherfuckers),
$40 - Donation for tree seedlings to the JP who married us (she was creating a public park),
$50 - Suit hire.
TOTAL: $620
Free:
Flowers, which were donated by the local SPCA lady when we adopted a cat from them the previous day,
Champagne, which we found in our house. Christ knows who left it there. We don't even drink.
Wedding Dress, my wife's mother's old dress.
There were a total of six people at the wedding: my wife and I; the JP who married us; a local photographer; two observatory technicians as witnesses.
People who spend a fortune on "dream weddings" are pussy-whipped dickheads.
My father is a small-town mayor in the midwest. He charges $50 for a marriage, or free if you're friends of his (and will feed him!) :-)
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Keep something long enough and it will eventually be worth $10,000 to someone.
Heck, if nothing else, that's probably not too far from the salary for someone like Long Dong Silver... *rimshot* {duck}
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