It was Carol, as you remember and Harry already reminded me in an earlier post. <Blush> That's what I get for posting from (an old) memory (and on a Blackberry) instead of looking it up.
Apparently, Marty always put me to sleep (not much of a challenge) at the VM Program opening sessions when he recited the heraldry. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates ----- Original Message ----- From: "David L. Craig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/08/2008 09:40 AM EST To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wired delenda est 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 The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
