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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*
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