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Cliff wrote:
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Moore's Law, the 40-year-old prediction that computer chip

performance
would double every year or two, may have found a place in history as
an accurate forecast. Original copies of the declaration, however,

are
lost. And a hunt on eBay has begun. INTEL CORP. has posted a $10,000
reward for an original copy, in mint condition, of the April 19,

1965,
issue of Electronics, the technical publication in which Intel's
founder, Gordon Moore, made his famous forecast. Electronics magazine
is now defunct, and Intel, the world's largest chip maker, has no
copy. Moore, now Intel's chairman emeritus, lent out his copy and

lost
track of it, said Howard High, an Intel spokesman.
]


By Daniel Sorid

http://q1.schwab.com/content/rb/2005/04/22/1080629.html
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Reuters) - A British engineer collected a
$10,000 bounty for turning in his near-mint copy of a famous
forty-year-old electronics magazine, but not before irking university
librarians who rushed to secure their copies from thieves.

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]

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Cliff