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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.
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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
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
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.
This was reported on CBC Radio last week.
maybe she'll be a bit more ok with my packrat qualities.
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)
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.
-- Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW 301/249-6501 AIM:OgGreeb Digital Marketing Inc., Bowie, MD
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.
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 i should do with those pokemon cards i kept.....
what....? they used to be popular...!
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."
"Honey, why do you keep all that old junk?"
"... I keep you, don't I?"
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!
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.
Yes, that's what Moore said in TO[riginal]FA.
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
If you read all TFA's relating to this (since Intel announced this just a week or two ago), you'll find that the figure was shortly changed to every 12 months, then shortly after that changed to the current value of 18 months. I forget if Moore or someone else did the revisions, but that was still in the '60's or so, and the 18 month figure has remained remarkably accurate.
Tag lost or not installed.
From TFA:
Mr Clark now intends to use the money to help pay for his daughters' weddings. His wife also has some plans for the cash.
Yeah, his wife can dream on...
Tag lost or not installed.
Keep something long enough and it will eventually be worth $10,000 to someone.
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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.