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> "I know what binary is. Jesus Christ! I memorized the hexadecimal
> times tables when I was 14 writing machine code, okay? Ask me what 9
> times F is. It's fleventy-five. I don't need you telling me what binary
> is"

> Erlich Bachman, from "Silicon Valley"

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Ready ng Your post to Mike had me to grab the calc to see what 9 times $F is.
&87  or 135 decimal.
.

Back at work there was a Remote Control station that was coded in Octal.
I was just learningabout Hexadecimal and knowing that helped me figure out that
3 Bit Code.
While I still was working, a friend I taked to on the telepone had got hiredas
a Electronic Repairman for a Company, and he was telling me about having a
problem understandng Octal that the company's Service Manuals used.
I helped him a ittle by telling him about how I adjusted to learnng about
Octal.

I like HEX better than OCTAL , but having a calc that has options for them
(which I wish was available in the 1970's)  makes doing the conversion much
much easier.
Yes, I had to use pen and paper learning Octal.

I memorized the Decimal Table on the back of Double Q notebook (12 X 12) in
school but You outdid me by learnng the HEX Multiple Table. NO, I ain't gonna
try learning that.
Ed
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