The "1980s" in the name wasn't a decade reference—it was the . To calculate the daily password, you had to subtract 1980 from the current year, multiply by the machine's internal uptime counter, and then XOR the result with a hardcoded seed (which later reverse-engineers found to be 0x7B9 – the hex for his birth year, 1979, plus two).
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