20 GOTO 10 Book

10101001 Facts About Retro Computers

I’ve been meaning to write about a fun book that I received for Christmas last year: 20 GOTO 10 by Steven Goodwin.

With the subtitle “10101001 Facts About Retro Computers”, this is a fun read. The book itself is hardcover, somewhat small in size (approx. 8”x5”) and about 266 pages.

I really love its title, of course!

Here’s the blurb from the back:

Do you know what secret messages were hidden in Commodore BASIC? Why the highest score possible in Pac-Man is 3333360? That Steve Wozniak set the price of the Apple ][ computer at $666.66? Or why the Amstrad CPC 472 had an 8K chip that was never connected?