FW: is your copy safe?

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From: Lormand, Saundra (sklorma@sandia.gov)
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 11:18:17 PDT 

Subject: FW: is your copy safe?
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:18:17 -0600
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From: "Lormand, Saundra" <sklorma@sandia.gov>

 

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From: ELDNET-L-owner@u.washington.edu
[mailto:ELDNET-L-owner@u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Greig
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:11 AM
To: eldnet-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: is your copy safe?

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.
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