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Intel magazine worth $10,000 stolen from Grainger day after prize announced
By Eric Chima
Posted: 5/4/05 Section: News
University police are continuing to investigate the theft of a 1965 copy of Electronics Magazine from the Grainger Engineering Library on April 12 - one day after electronics giant Intel offered to pay $10,000 to anyone with a copy, University police officials said Monday.
Lieutenant Dave Nelson of University police refused to comment on what progress the police had made in the investigation, but said they hope to have concrete information by the end of the week.
The magazine was discovered missing April 13, when librarian Mary Schlembach saw Intel's listing on eBay and decided to pull the issue from the shelves.
"We had a bunch of staff and grad students go around the building to look for it, and we weren't able to find it," Schlembach said. "It was on the shelf upstairs, so anybody could go up there, so long as they found the call number."
The issue had sat on the shelf for 40 years until Intel became interested, Schlembach said.
Intel spokesman Manny Vara said the company wanted to purchase the magazine to put it in the company museum. In the issue, an article written by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore introduced Moore's Law, which stated that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every year for the next 10 years. The law has since become an integral part of the computer chip industry.
Vara said Intel would not have been interested in the University's copy because its spine had been cut and bound together with five other issues of the magazine. The company has since found a seller in the United Kingdom and pulled its eBay listing.
The library still has another copy of the magazine, which will be kept under lock and key in the rare book room, Schlembach said. Students wishing to view the magazine will have to ask a librarian to retrieve it for them.
The University of Toronto had their copy stolen as well, and the Universities of Michigan, Stanford and Santa Cruz all had to lock their copies away, Schlembach said. She said Intel went about buying the magazine the wrong way.
Lieutenant Dave Nelson of University police refused to comment on what progress the police had made in the investigation, but said they hope to have concrete information by the end of the week.
The magazine was discovered missing April 13, when librarian Mary Schlembach saw Intel's listing on eBay and decided to pull the issue from the shelves.
"We had a bunch of staff and grad students go around the building to look for it, and we weren't able to find it," Schlembach said. "It was on the shelf upstairs, so anybody could go up there, so long as they found the call number."
The issue had sat on the shelf for 40 years until Intel became interested, Schlembach said.
Intel spokesman Manny Vara said the company wanted to purchase the magazine to put it in the company museum. In the issue, an article written by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore introduced Moore's Law, which stated that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every year for the next 10 years. The law has since become an integral part of the computer chip industry.
Vara said Intel would not have been interested in the University's copy because its spine had been cut and bound together with five other issues of the magazine. The company has since found a seller in the United Kingdom and pulled its eBay listing.
The library still has another copy of the magazine, which will be kept under lock and key in the rare book room, Schlembach said. Students wishing to view the magazine will have to ask a librarian to retrieve it for them.
The University of Toronto had their copy stolen as well, and the Universities of Michigan, Stanford and Santa Cruz all had to lock their copies away, Schlembach said. She said Intel went about buying the magazine the wrong way.
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