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[Tom Teper <tteper@xxxxxxxx>]

This just came over a list-serve a little while ago. Intel is offering
$10,000 on eBay for a copy of a 1965 issue of "Electronics"
magazine in which what became known as Moore's Law was first published.
They won't buy copies from libraries or museums unless they are the
selling agent, but perhaps you want to check to see if your copies are
still around. 

Tom Teper

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thought you might want to know about the $10,000 offer by Intel for a
> copy of this 1965 issue of "Electronics" magazine.  Out of
> concern that this might encourage theft, we've pulled our copy from the
> shelf.
>
> Karen Greig
> Engineering Library
> Stanford University
>
> > Tuesday, April 12, 2005 (SF
> > Chronicle)
> > Intel offers $10,000 for Moore's Law article/Firm seeks pristine copy of
> > founder's prescient words
> > Michael Kanellos, Cnet News.com
> >
> >
> >    Intel Corp. lives by Moore's Law, but it apparently doesn't
> > have a copy of
> > the magazine in which the law was first laid down.
> >    The Santa Clara chip giant has posted a $10,000 bounty on
> > eBay for someone
> > who can provide a pristine April 19, 1965, copy of Electronics
> > magazine.
> >    That issue of the magazine contained an article by Intel
> > co-founder Gordon
> > Moore that described how the number of components on integrated
> > circuits
> > was doubling every year. The article became the foundation for his
> > famed
> > dictum.
> >    "We have photocopies of the article but not the actual
> > issue of the
> > magazine," an Intel spokesman said. "Gordon doesn't have it and
> > the Intel
> > Museum doesn't either."
> >    Electronics magazine went out of business several years
> > ago.
> >    Intel turned to the online auction site on Monday, posting a
> > message on
> > eBay's Want It Now page offering $10,000 for a copy of the magazine
> > in
> > mint condition. (The company may buy more than one copy but at a
> > lower
> > price. Intel employees and their families are ineligible.)
> >    Moore's Law -- which has since been revised to estimate that
> > the number of
> > transistors doubles every 18 months -- has been the cornerstone for
> > the
> > information technology industry for decades as it has defined how
> > products
> > can simultaneously drop in price while improving in performance. This
> > has
> > created a situation in which users upgrade well before their
> > equipment
> > breaks, a boon for the industry.
> >    Despite its historical significance, the article at the time
> > wasn't
> > considered a monument.
> >    "I didn't think it would be especially accurate,"
> > Moore said in a recent
> > interview.
> >    Moore, 76, was born in San Francisco and received a
> > bachelor's degree in
> > chemistry from UC Berkeley. He was research director at the
> > Fairchild
> > Semiconductor division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. when
> > he
> > wrote the Electronics magazine article in 1965, and in 1968 he
> > co-founded
> > Intel.
> >    Chronicle staff contributed to this report.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Copyright 2005 SF Chronicle

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