Electronics (magazine)

Electronics (magazine)

"Electronics" was an American trade journal that covered the radio industry and its later spin-offs in the mid-late 1900s. Published by McGraw-Hill and, near the end of its run, Penton Publishing, its first issue was dated in April 1930. ["Introducing: The New, Biweekly Electronics", "Electronics", May 1992, p. 22]

Generally a monthly magazine, its frequency and page count varied with the state of the industry until its end in 1995. More than its principal rival "Electronic News", it balanced its appeal to managerial and technical interests (at the time of its 1992 makeover it described itself as a magazine for managers). The magazine was best known for publishing the April 19, 1965 article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in which he outlined what came to be known as Moore's Law.

The magazine claimed to have invented the word "electronics".Fact|date=July 2008

Intel's hunt for Moore's original article

On April 11, 2005, Intel posted a $10,000 reward for an original, pristine copy of the "Electronics Magazine" where Moore's article was first published. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=8148789] The hunt was started in part because Moore lost his personal copy after loaning it out. It soon became apparent to librarians that their copies of the article were in danger of being stolen, so many libraries (including Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) located and secured the articles. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was not so lucky, however, as the day after Intel announced the reward, they found that one of the two copies they owned was missing (" [http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39129574,00.htm silicon.com] ", 2005). Intel has stated that they will only purchase library copies of the article from the libraries themselves - it would be easy to determine as most libraries bind their old magazines and it would require cutting the article from the bound book if a thief were to sell the article (" [http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2332707p-8710798c.html NC News Wire] ", 2005). Intel ultimately awarded the prize to David Clark, an engineer living in Surrey, England who had decades of old issues of "Electronics Magazine" stored under his floorboards. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4472549.stm BBC] , 2005]

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