On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:55:03PM -0600, Mike Walter wrote: > It's probably listed in one of Melinda's papers, or her fascinating > "History of VM". The way I recall it, at one SHARE (maybe in SF?) Sandra > Hassenplug went shopping instead of to the General session. She came > across a roll of the now famous teddy bear stickers, buying several feet of > them. She had been looking for a way for the relatively few VM'ers at > SHARE to find each other, and thought that stickers, like the "I've been > greeted by #1" stickers given by the guy who always was the first to > register for each SHARE, would be a good means. She considered the teddy > bear a warm, friendly icon of the VM operating system. Thus was born the > first mainframe operating system icon/mascot.
I always heard it was Carol Jobush, not Sandra. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg
