The only clever bit as far as I can see was transcribing the 8000
characters from what was usually machine code (hexadecimal code....a
mixture of numbers 0-9 and letters A-F) into English so we could read
it ......each pair of characters translates to a real number or letter
or space,hyphen whatever......
Doing it by hand manually would take forever and it sounds like they wrote
a program to do it.....
It's not that clever. Hex(adecimal), has been ubiquitous in programming since the beginning of virtual time. Dumping Hex to Decimal character set equivalents is simplicity itself and there are a million programs out there that can do it. You will also find people who can read the Hex and translate to the Decimal character equivalent in their heads. It's not that difficult for real geeks...
