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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.
was probably worth more than the money, by a long shot.
playboy did something similiar, I'd be all set.
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 :)
one flight for two from UK to Las Vegas: $1600
two disposable cameras with processing: $30
two bottles of champagne: $200
shotgun wedding from Elvis with the works: $350
pocketing the leftover money to spend on geek toys: priceless
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how I can afford a wedding for 5k or less
A marriage license cost is minimal. Cost to have someone wed you is minimal. Local church would more than likely be happy to have you wed there. All of this for under $5k. I've done it. However from experience I can say that the real expense is the bride and then their is not much one can do about that...
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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.
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Here's a serious answer to your semi-serious question: spend $50 on a justice of the peace.
For us, the cost of the marriage license included having a judge perform the marriage (I think: it was 14 years ago, now, and some of those trivial details are starting to fade.). We went out to a nice restaurant with my parents and friends, afterwards. Total cost was under $200.
If you do it right, this will be your first and last marriage, so you want to do it right. Just remember that spending money, having a big party, having fancy clothes, and all that expensive jazz, has nothing to do with ``doing it right.''
Your wedding celebration may be the last wedding you'll ever have, but it's just the first of many celebrations you and your wife will have together.
See what I've been reading.
Who the hell keeps their old trade mags under the floor boards? Isn't that where the porn goes?
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Clearly, you underestimate the eroticism of a good circuit diagram.
for the life of me i have no idea what intel wants to do with it
They're going to collect all copies in existence and burn them, so that when Moore's Law is proved wrong, they'll claim it was just a stupid rumor, like Bill's "640K" quote.
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Actually, the fortunes are created because of this. If every kid who ever bought Action Comics #1 or any of those old comics still had his copy, they'd all be hardly more than a novelty collector's item (like an issue of TIME from the same period). The same goes for baseball cards, etc. The very fact that these things are now seen as "valuable investments" and saved means that, most likely, they never will be.