FTB
Appeared in
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
Story Summary
Father Christmas finds entering through the ventilating system a bit odd and receiving a letter from a computer even odder. But when Santa discovers that the computer went on line just two years ago, he knows just what to leave for TOM (Trade & Office Machines). To the tech department's surprise, TOM refuses to compute every time they try to remove the teddy bear from atop his case.