The Teddy Chronicles
or: a bear, a Mac, and a teenager with too much time on his hands

Once, more than ten years ago, I had a Macintosh computer and a little cousin named Kevin. Well, actually, I still have both of them, but the Mac, having never been upgraded past its initial 1 meg RAM (plenty at the time!), is pretty much useless now, and, well, Kevin's no longer what I'd call my "little" cousin. Anyway, Kevin had a stuffed animal which he loved more than anything, which was his prized teddy bear, "Teddy." Little kids have a great way of coming up with unusual names for their toys.

Just for fun (for what other reason could there be?), we put Teddy into a photocopy machine, and scanned the resulting copy into my Macintosh computer. This is what it looked like:

Teddy

Remember that, at this time, the Mac had no color imaging capabilities, or even grayscale. Just simple black-and-white pictures. Of course, that didn't stop me from messing with Teddy. Using crude "paint" software, I drew all over that bear, with varied results, some of which I'm quite pleased to present here.

Click on the images to view the full-sized pictures.

Basketball Teddy   Touchdown Teddy
Catcher Teddy   Fastball Teddy
Businessman Teddy   Postman Teddy
Workman Teddy   Clown Teddy
Doctor Teddy   Judge Teddy
Jailbird Teddy   Peace Teddy
Tuxedo Teddy   Sailor Teddy
Ski Teddy   Snorkel Teddy
Santa Teddy   Space Teddy
Bat Teddy   Super Teddy
Rambo Teddy   Teddy Lives!
Transvestite Teddy   Unwanted Teddy

Like I said, pretty crude, but hey, they were fun to make back then, and my little cousin liked 'em.

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