I remember booting up an emulated CADR for the first time and, after entering the date as something, something, 2008, was startled for the status bar to read a

I remember booting up an emulated CADR for the first time and, after entering the date as something, something, 2008, was startled for the status bar to read a year of 19108. I also did my quick Lisp sanity test of saying (* 4 3) and expecting 12 -- but I got 14 instead. It was then that I learned the CADR speaks octal by default.