On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 09:37:37AM +0000, Erik Christiansen via Dng wrote:
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> The HP2100A had a display register, made of illuminated pushbuttons,
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> a bit toggling each time its button was pushed. It took a long time for
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> me to accept hexadecimal notation after the ease of binary/octal. Even
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> half a century later, 0b11111111 is 0377 before it is 0xFF in my mind.

My first machine used hexadecimal, so octal has never seemed as natural
as hexadecimal in my mind. But instead or using a, b, c, d, e, f for
the six extra digits, it used u, v, w, x, y, z.

-- hendrik