wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (06/05/88)
------------- Just discovered something interesting the other day, and am curious... In one of our school papers here at Rutgers, there's usually ads/comments/references to an organization in Texas known as the Church of the SubGenius. Their emblem/logo is a smiling man with a pipe in his mouth who is known as "Bob Dobbs", or just "Bob". The other day I found that this same picture of "Bob" is part of the built in character set on the ST! To see "Bob", go into 40 column low res mode, enter Basic, and: print chr$(28);chr$(29) print chr$(30);chr$(31) Anybody have any info about how "Bob" got into the ST? Were it's designers members of the Church of the SubGenius? Or was this picture originally from something else entirely, and just happened to adopted by that organization??????? Curiously, Ray Wilmott wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu
wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) (06/06/88)
In article <Jun.4.16.40.40.1988.7450@topaz.rutgers.edu>, wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP writes: > Their emblem/logo is a smiling man with a pipe in his mouth who is known > as "Bob Dobbs", or just "Bob". The other day I found that this same > picture of "Bob" is part of the built in character set on the ST! Aha! I saw that picture shortly after I got my ST, but didn't know who it was. Good sleuthing! (Is this Dr. Dobbs' brother?) [filler] [filler] -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043
jaf@crcmar.crc.uucp (Jonathan Fischer) (06/13/88)
From article <468@mks.UUCP>, by wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler): > In article <Jun.4.16.40.40.1988.7450@topaz.rutgers.edu>, wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP writes: >> Their emblem/logo is a smiling man with a pipe in his mouth who is known >> as "Bob Dobbs", or just "Bob". The other day I found that this same >> picture of "Bob" is part of the built in character set on the ST! > > Aha! I saw that picture shortly after I got my ST, but didn't know who > it was. Good sleuthing! (Is this Dr. Dobbs' brother?) Actually, STart mag had a reference to this Bob guy (as well as the church of the subhuman gardening utensils or whatever) in one of their early issues. On the 'tidbits' page (or whatever it's called). Speaking of the character set, can someone at Atari tell us why the hebraic (sp?) characters where chosen (in the upper half of the charset)? I can't believe that the number of people who actually use these characters approaches anywhere NEAR even 1% of the total number of ST owners (counter examples, anyone?). Why not use the same graphics characters as the IBM? Sometimes it's useful to be able to include nice charts & such in a text file, using these characters. In fact, forget about 'sometimes' -- it's quite FREQUENTLY useful to do so. *Sigh* -- -Jonathan A. Fischer SMARTMAIL: jaf@crcmar.uucp UUCP: ...utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!crcmar!jaf BITNET: jaf%crcmar@UTORGPU ARPA: dgbt@ncs-dre.arpa (<-- specify my name).