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Moore's Law Original Issue Found

Posted by Zonk on from the we-can-all-rest-easy-now dept.

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.

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  1. True geek! by garcia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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 :)

    1. Re:True geek! by grommit · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well, there's two options:

      One, he's using the $10k to pay for *some* of the wedding expenses.

      Two, his daughters aren't having weddings that consist of needless expense.

      I like the latter option personally. Total cost for my wedding was under $1k.

    2. Re:True geek! by oyenstikker · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'm planning one now. Here's what I'm looking at:

      Church + pastor + organist: $200
      Food for 100: $1000
      Cake: made by my mother: free
      Shoes for myself and my groomsmen: $400
      Material for dress (to be made by her): $100
      photography: $1400
      rehearsal dinner food (to be made by friends): $50
      paying a women's group at the church to help out: $100
      wine: none, church won't allow it.
      some hokey gifts for people: $200
      wedding bands: $200
      total: $3650
      that leaves $1349.99 for a band to stay under 5k.

      oh yeah: getting a '75 beetle up and running for the getaway car: $300 and counting.

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  2. Women..... by WilyCoder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  3. Old news by updatelee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This was reported on CBC Radio last week.

  4. There are several of these on eBay-- by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?

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  5. Re:Plea to UIUC student by justforaday · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As someone pointed out in the other thread, that copy is most likely already on ebay. It's a bit suspicious that this copy is located in Chicago, disassembled, has what looks to be whiteout where a library stamp would be, and has the disclaimer "This article was not a library copy."

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  6. Publisher Out of Business by SuperficialRhyme · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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."

  7. Re:How can it be 'found' by updatelee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    CBC Radio had a short clip on how the Toronto Library had a copy, once it learned of the bounty on it they moved the copy to their "special collections" section where you can read the magazine but not check it out. Aparently they were contacted by Intel about selling it and the Toronto Library refused.