Do you know someone who saves old magazines? I have a friend, now in his 80’s, that couldn’t quite decide what to do with his old National Geographic magazines when he was packing up to move to an independent retirement home. We kidded him that somewhere amongst his collection was the one with Jesus on the cover! Well, it turns out that for one man, saving old magazines paid big.

Saving Old Magazines Earns Man $10,000
Mercury News
By Dean Takahashi, John Boudreau, Sam Diaz and Dawn Chmielewski

How much did Intel want a copy of the April 19, 1965, issue of Electronics magazine? Enough to pay $10,000.

That magazine contained an article by Gordon Moore, Intel's former chief executive, with the first prediction that came to be known as Moore's Law. Moore predicted in his article that the number of transistors on a chip would double every year. Forty years later, the law has become part of technology history, but even Intel's own museum couldn't locate any copies of the original magazine. More…