More IBM-tans

[stewartsage]

Yess, I figured he already had, considering the Amiga connection ><;

Yep, MERT'll be my first Unix!
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Hopefully there will be as little blood as possible.

MONECS-tan
-Australian
-Speed reader, completes books quickly but may have trouble remembering them
-Passionate supporter of making technology more available (designed to give smaller schools computer access)
-Gets along well with children (Goes with above)
-Enjoys scuba diving, sometimes even with OpenVMS (Also called SCUBA)
-Known for playing tricks on other DECs, or, well anyone (AKA DEAMON)
-Likes to build things out of office supplies and household knick-knacks, since she frequently lacks more advanced materials. Frequently involved in the above.
-Almost impossible to trap, combining her improve building skills with her hard to stop personality

Appearance: Climate comfortable clothes or scuba suit, black hair with silver highlights well styled, typically some jewelry fashioned out of paperclips, horns of some sort

[Chocofreak13]

i want to make this -tan......


ibm 5100 tan.

and wang 2200 -chan:


my notes on wang-chan are:
smaller (adolescent?), worked well in businesses, built by an immigrant from china, easily connects to other computers, feels inferior to older sister VS wang, recieved upgrade (2200CS) in late 1980's, humble, polite, cheaper than other computers of the time, dying off, still loved by her creator, warmhearted, tries her best despite the fact that she is frail, still supported thoigh her parent company has died off,

[Bella]

@ MONECS-tan: those are excellent ideas, she's already sounding delightfully quirky. We'll be waiting to see what's in store with MERT-tan! (Unices are like potato chips: betcha can't have just one. Or make just one. Damn, gotta work on my metaphor skillz).

@IBM 5100 and Wang 2200-tan: Wooh, I love 5100-tan's design! You already know how I feel about her personality, but the physical design is gorgeous as well (the clothing design is to die for). And the little pup in her arms.... <3

(Terminally bored, eh? That reminds me of a traveler OC of mine... xD)

Wang-chan's design is a little less complex, but adorable in its simplicity. D'awws were had at 2200-chan and Mac-tan holding hands in the bottom right corner (full sized drawing plz ^//^)

That's VS Wang-tan on the lower left?

Anyhoow... a few of my own. ENIAC, EDVAC, Harvard Mark I, CSIRAC and Manchester Mark I-tan:



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Notes can be found here

[Chocofreak13]

all are lovely. ^^ my favourite is manchester-tan, i kind of want to make that outfit...... (i kinda wish i had the pretty long hair to go with it .___.)

i'll draw a full size of that pic you requested, but it's going in the pile. ^^ thankfully IT'S VACATION, which leaves me plenty of time. ^^


bella......is you on vacation as well....? .w.

[Bella]

Thank you very much. You could probably make Manchester Mark I-tan's outfit, all you need is some crazy old skirts/blouses/scarves/jewelry and a straw hat (and a pipe?) and throw it all together in a disheveled mess. >XD

Awesome! I have a pile of 90%-done drawings that need uploading too, they've been sitting for months and are starting to get on my nerves. >.>

I wuz. :<

[Chocofreak13]

is or was? ._____.

thought you didn't live in mass.....ART THOU LYING TO MEE??? ;____;


i thought what we had was special..... ;___;

[Bella]

I like to consider myself something of a dual-citizen; I live in NH, but have a lot of friends/relatives-by-marriage that are from Mass so I've sort of picked up their culture by osmosis.

It's just that my school is rebellious, it follows its own schedule come hell or high water.

[Chocofreak13]

ah....ok.

the 5100-tan i drew reminds me of my evangeline dolly. i should post a pic of her. ^^

[stewartsage]

Evangeline.... Negima.....?

[Chocofreak13]

lulz. check pic thread in discussions section ^^;

[Bella]

A few new OS-tan concepts:

IBM Stretch (7030 Data Processing System)-tan
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ibm/stretch/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch
Computer info:
-IBM's first transistorized supercomputer
-Slower than expected, but the fastest computer in the world until the CDC 6600 was built
-First Stretch site was Los Alamos National Laboratory (1961)
OS-tan info:
-Developed contortionist abilities after mutations from being exposed to radiation (a la superhero comics)
-Also has the ability to extend her limbs up to 31 feet in any direction (there's a reason to this number, btw)
-Dresses lightly (to accommodate her physical abilities), wears Classical-looking clothing and strapped sandals
-Has a feud with the CDC-tans, especially SCOPE-tan

Tandem (now HP) NonStop OS-tan (this design was proposed by DaveLuck @ Deviantart.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop#NonStop_OS
OS-tan info:
-Identical twins
-Have an uncanny telepath-like connection
-Operate in lock-step with one another
-They have odd speech mannerisms: often say the same thing at the same time, prone to repetition in an attempt to get their point across
-Will argue about semantics and wording if one says something that the other doesn't
-May be physically indestructible
-If ones gets "killed" or badly injured, the other will pick up the slack (at least long enough to get the job done)
Neither DaveLuck nor I have any set ideas for their physical appearance, only that they would be perfectly identical.

Colossus Computer-tan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
-A giant, at 30ft/9.14m tall (can downsize to 6ft/182cm, though, for practical purposes)
-Dresses in a vague mix of Greek dress and British WWII Army uniform
-Skilled code-breaker and cryptographer
-Has been brought back to life as Colossus Mark II (?)

[Red-Machine]

The Colossus!  We decided she'd be a spy working for the British Government, as it was used as a codebreaker during the war.

[MaccasWell]

I loved your phrase of not letting OS/360-tan near anything breakable, she sounds like a particular OS-tan that is quite clumsy herself.

[Bella]

Sorry Red-san, I didn't know that you guys had already created a Colossus-tan. ^^; Or did you just propose a few ideas?

I loved your phrase of not letting OS/360-tan near anything breakable, she sounds like a particular OS-tan that is quite clumsy herself.

She is quite clumsy... but also VERY powerful. I don't think I have to tell you what a dangerous combination of traits THAT is. xD

[Red-Machine]

Nah, we tossed around a few ideas, but nothing ever came of it.  I'm sure you'd be able to comeup with something better anyway!