Note the use of one-inch wafers. Monocrystalline silicon was so rare
in those days that there was a debate within Intel as to whether to
use uniform circular wafers, or irregular ones.
Moore himself wants it, according to what I heard on NPR on Monday night.
It has nothing to do with wanting to know what he wrote back then, it's
everything to have the artifact in hand. I think the NPR piece said he'd
lost his copy, or lent it to someone. The cost goes up because so
many did not keep their copy.
All kinds of kids give away their toys and comic books when they grow
up (or their parents get rid of them), and then decades later they
Tell me about it...
I had a metre high pile of comic books from the 60s including original X men and
Spiderman. How much would they be worth now if my mother had not thrown them out?
Note the use of one-inch wafers. Monocrystalline silicon was so rare
in those days that there was a debate within Intel as to whether to
use uniform circular wafers, or irregular ones.
