He had stored old copies of the magazine underneath the floorboards of his home for decades.See, you never can tell when those Goofus and Gallant comics from Highlights Magazine might be worth having in your garage.
"His wife gave him a hard time over the years for hoarding the magazines, but he kept telling her one day they'd be worth a lot of money," [an Intel spokesman] said.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Intel Supports Pack Rats
It was somewhat interesting to hear that Intel was offering $10K for a mint copy of the original article in which Gordon Moore, Intel founder, outlined what would later become known as Moore's Law. Moore's Law posits that the number of components on an integrated circuit will double yearly (although it was later revised downward). What was more interesting was that they found the article thanks to a guy who had squirrelled away magazines for years.
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