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Back, 40 years or so ago when I first got into computer stuff, I thought I was an elite hacker-nerd, I converted my first name from lowercase ASCII to hex ti use as a password.  (I have long ago abandoned it, natch.)

I still remember by heart that “scott” in hexadecimal is 73636F7474.

About a week later, I changed it to 53636F7474, which is “Scott”

Now, I can’t remember phone numbers without very active commitment or a device to help me.

I am also amazed that I bothered to code in FORTRAN 77.

The coding pad made for cool dungeon mapping grids, though.