Wednesday, 23 August 2023
20 GOTO 10 - The Meta Edition
With the book at the printers, I got my first weekend of "not thinking about the book" since 26th July 2021, when we first launched the campaign.
So, with my second weekend off, I created a short list of facts about the book and process itself.
4 : Most covered number, with nine separate entries
4 : Proof runs - me, to them, to me, to them, to me ...
11 : Number of appendices, labelled 0 to 4294967295
14 : Secret entries, unlisted in the contents
29 : Letters in the longest word of the book
49 : Favourite machines covered (taking over a month to write up!)
58 : Lines of BASIC in an exclusive type-in game
77 : Days between being 100% funded, and my first draft
160 : Entries in contents
185 : Days between launch of crowdfunding, to 100%
576 : Pledges to hit the target
814 : Current number of supporters!
So far, I've only seen the PDFs, but if the printed version matches then there are some very nice tie-ins of page numbers and entry numbers!
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Comments
Is that 814 unique/distinct supporters? Through a worrying failure of attention and memory, I managed to support it twice!
posted 29th August 2023
May I know if you will provide mail tracking number when you ship the physical book ?
posted 29th August 2023
Can’t wait to receive it. Every update gets me even more hyped up! Not long now
posted 29th August 2023
Woot!! I'm really looking forward to seeing this.
posted 29th August 2023
... and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!
posted 29th August 2023
seems a heck of a long time ago since joining the train, but sounds like the light is at the end of the tunnel now :)
how about the stat we probably all want to see.... how many days to release ;)
posted 30th August 2023
@Matthew, I believe 814 represents distinct supporters as counted by the system. (Although we're now at 825!)
posted 4th September 2023