Moores Law

Wouldn't it be cheaper to get a professional photocopy (from Staples for example) than to do this?

Dwayne

Subject: Re: Moores Law Newsgroup: alt.engineering.electrical => Dwayne Wouldn't it be cheaper to get a professional photocopy (from Staples for

Try showing a photocopy of your drivers licence to the security guard at the airport. It just won't work.

I probably had one in the enchanted ilse., my mom through it out with the rest of my Electroni lit. when I left home for an adventure/vacation, she thought i would not return and cleaned my dump pile of mags & stuff out., I got several tube amps, tuners from it but nothing ever made it up to me, now you tell me It is worth $10,000,00., I can't wait to tell her };-)

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day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine in which Moore's Law was first announced, a University of Illinois engineering library noticed that one of its two copies had disappeared.

There was a glaring space on the shelf where the bound volume containing the April 19, 1965, edition of Electronics Magazine sat for years, said Mary Schlembach, assistant engineering librarian at the Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Another librarian heard a student talking on a cell phone about the volume the same day, Schlembach said. Ordinarily, the magazine is not a popular item.

"We don't know when it walked, but it walked," she said. "A lot of copies will go missing."

Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine. The bounty went up on April 11. Since then, others have posted bounties too.

Although Intel specifically said it would only buy library copies from libraries, the situation is creating problems. Stanford has pulled its copy off the shelves, said Karen Greig, head of reference at the engineering library at Stanford. Hunt nearly over for Intel A second copy owned by the University of Illinois is under lock and key. The school has no intention of selling it. "We want to keep the original for historical and archiving purposes," Schlembach said. "This is not a good idea."

The April 19, 1965, 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 Moore's famed dictum and has been a cornerstone of the entire IT industry for decades. Making sense of Wi-Fi's alphabet soup

Intel, which has now spoken with several people or institutions that have copies of the magazine, will close down its eBay listing on Thursday night, a company spokesman said.

"We feel we have enough candidates for this," said Manny Vara, a company spokesman. "The people we're talking to are individuals that have been engineers for a long time and who seem to have (copies) in their collections. We're also talking to libraries who might want to sell" their copies.

The most likely candidates are magazines that would come from outside of the United States, Vara said.

However, "we certainly were not looking to cause any problems for any of the libraries out there, and we did go out of or way in our posting to point that out," Vara said. "We actually have in our posting that we will not buy library or museum copies from anyone other than those organizations themselves."

If Intel got any indication that an individual was attempting to sell a poached university copy, such as the one from the University of Illinois, the company would contact that university, Vara said.

David Clark had kept copies of the magazine for years, despite pleas from his wife to throw them away.

Now the couple are celebrating after collecting the $10,000 reward which was offered on eBay by chip maker Intel.

Moore's Law, the principle that has driven the computer chip industry, celebrated 40 years this week.

"I am totally astonished. It is the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me," Mr Clark told the BBC News website.

"I am really pleased about it because I studied physics and have always had interest in electronics. I could see the next 30 years were going to go like Moore's Law said, so I decided to go into electronics."

The "law" was adopted after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote in the

Read about the impact of Moore's Law

Chips that can work faster and faster have driven the technological and digital revolution so far.

Desperately wanted

"We're delighted to at last have an original copy of the April 1965 edition of Electronics Magazine," said an Intel spokesperson.

"Dr Moore's article established a theory that has underpinned advancements in the semiconductor industry over the past 40 years and is the basis of our continued research and development at Intel.

"We are delighted to have a copy of the article back in the home of Intel in Santa Clara and are extremely grateful to Mr Clark for making this possible."

The publication is now defunct, but neither Dr Moore, who is now retired, nor Intel had a mint condition original of the magazine.

Intel posted the reward on online auction site eBay in the run-up to the

Since the offer was posted, the search has been on all around the world to find an original.

Mr Clark, who admits he is "a bit of a hoarder", collected the Electronics magazine issues, as well as others, after the Philips Central Library in the UK - now closed - started to clean them out.

I could feel the hairs standing up on my arms. I think I've got that, I thought - although I wasn't sure David Clark "In the 70s, they started throwing out large quantities of these magazines," he said.

"I was in my 20s at the time and thought you shouldn't throw them out because they are recording the golden age of electronics."

He gave several hundreds of them a home first in his loft, then under the floorboards and had not looked at them since.

Until last Wednesday, when his RSS news reader popped up with headlines from various websites with the news of the reward.

"I could feel the hairs standing up on my arms. I think I've got that, I thought - although I wasn't sure.

"I took the rest of morning off, and pulled the furniture back; I hadn't seen them for 15 years. I started sorting through them."

The first pile he looked at only went as far back as 1970. It was not until he looked at another hidden and securely wrapped pile that he found the issue at the very top of the stack.

Part of history

When he contacted Intel, he thought they would not know what he was talking about.

He was officially told he was the "winner" two days ago. Intel had had hundreds of e-mails claiming to have an original copy, but Mr Clark's was the first authentic claim.

Dr Gordon Moore Neither Dr Moore nor Intel had an original of the magazine A bound copy of the volume of Electronics which contained the issue disappeared, soon after the reward was publicised, from the University of Illinois' engineering library.

Mr Clark now intends to use the money to help pay for his daughters' weddings. His wife also has some plans for the cash.

He did offer to hand over the copy himself to Dr Moore, who now lives in Hawaii.

"I feel quite fond of the law, so feel like a bit of history and pride in returning it to him," said Mr Clark.

In an interview with the Associated Press agency recently, Dr Moore said: "Electronics was one of the trade magazines that you read and throw away. It wasn't an archival journal."