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-SAGE's daughter. | **-SAGE's daughter. | ||
-A fill-in for SAGE, she was prevented from being with her mother for reasons of operational security. | **-A fill-in for SAGE, she was prevented from being with her mother for reasons of operational security. | ||
- The two had a loving relationship otherwise and often corresponded by letter. | **-The two had a loving relationship otherwise and often corresponded by letter. | ||
-As spirited as her mum but rather unmotivated. | **-As spirited as her mum but rather unmotivated. | ||
-Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion. | **-Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion. | ||
-Prone to boredom. | **-Prone to boredom. | ||
-Spends her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment. | **-Spends her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment. | ||
-Has swift reflexes and a keen sense of observation. | **-Has swift reflexes and a keen sense of observation. | ||
-Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes. | **-Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes. | ||
-Died in 1983. | **-Died in 1983. | ||
===ENIAC=== | |||
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*'''Name:''' ENIAC-sama | |||
*'''aka:''' Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer | |||
*'''Debut:''' ~1943-1945 | |||
*'''Died:''' 1955 | |||
*'''Height:''' 170 cm (5'7") | |||
*'''Weight:''' 59 kg (130 lb) | |||
*'''Eye Color:''' Grey | |||
*'''Hair:''' Black | |||
*'''Quick Facts:''' | |||
**-A mathematician, employed to do work too difficult for human beings. | |||
**-Worked for the US Army during WWII. | |||
**-Suffers from antero-retrograde amnesia. | |||
**-Chronically sickly and mentally unstable, she needs an entire staff to tend to her upkeep. | |||
**-Had an entirely female entourage. | |||
**-Loves baubles and adorns herself with gaudy jewelry. | |||
**-Obsessed with counting things, she's worked out a system of keeping track of her counts using rings on her fingers. | |||
**-Uses decimal, not binary as later generations of computers would. | |||
**-Biologically one-of-a-kind, she exerted a great deal of influence upon later computers-tans but left no actual descendants. | |||
**-Considered EDVAC her heir. | |||
**-Rivalrous toward Atanasoff-Berry Computer and Z3-tan. | |||
**-Mice have been known to next in her ridiculously complex outfits. | |||
**-Died from a lightning strike in 1955. | |||
**-Dresses in solid black Greco-Roman-looking outfits decorated with jewels, keeps her hair tied into braids and veiled, wears delicate flip-flop type shoes. | |||
===Harvard Mark I=== | ===Harvard Mark I=== | ||
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*'''Debut:''' 1947 | *'''Debut:''' 1947 | ||
*'''Died:''' unknown | |||
*'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4") | *'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4") | ||
*'''Weight:''' ??kg | *'''Weight:''' ??kg | ||
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**-Usually wears her hair in pigtails, and wears an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants. | **-Usually wears her hair in pigtails, and wears an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants. | ||
**-Wears a black+grey polka-dotted vest. | **-Wears a black+grey polka-dotted vest. | ||
===IBM SSEC=== | |||
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*'''Name:''' IBM SSEC | |||
*'''aka:''' Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, "Poppa" | |||
*'''Debut:''' 1948 | |||
*'''Died:" 1952 | |||
*'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4") | |||
*'''Weight:''' 51 kg (113 lb) | |||
*'''Eye Color:''' Gold | |||
*'''Hair:''' Red | |||
*'''Quick Facts:''' | |||
**-A skilled astronomer. | |||
**-Considered the most beautiful -tan of her era. | |||
**-Kept "on display" at IBM HQ in New York City, a living testament to her company's technological might. | |||
**-Unlike most OS-tans of that time, she relishes public attention and being in the limelight. | |||
**-Doesn't let anyone forget that she knows Thomas Watson Sr. personally. | |||
**-Arguably more knowledgable than her cousin, Harvard Mark I. | |||
**-Locked in a quiet conflict with her cousin (Harvard Mark I), whom she brags about having superiority over. | |||
**-Died 1952; she lived a short life, even by 1940s-50s standards. | |||
**-Dresses in ornate Roman-style outfits. | |||
===Whirlwind I=== | ===Whirlwind I=== | ||
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*'''Name:''' | *'''Name:''' Whirlwind-hime | ||
*'''aka:''' | *'''aka:''' Whirlwind I | ||
*'''Debut:''' | *'''Debut:''' 1944 | ||
*'''Height:''' | *'''Died:''' 1973 | ||
*'''Weight:''' | *'''Height:''' 170 cm (5'7") | ||
*'''Eye Color:''' | *'''Weight:''' 61 kg (135 lb) | ||
*'''Hair:''' | *'''Eye Color:''' Blue | ||
*'''Hair:''' Black | |||
*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-A lifelong Hub resident, she speaks with a heavy Boston accent. (tending toward a Dorchester dialect) | |||
**-An engineer by trade . | |||
**-Originally a Naval reservist, later discharged and employed by the Air Force. | |||
**-Harbours a vendetta against the Navy, her discharge from which she took as a personal affront. | |||
**-Generally good-natured and genteel. | |||
**-Been known to display an ill temper at times. | |||
**-Played an instrumental part in the creation of two of her three children. | |||
**-Considered creating and raising SAGE her life's motivation. | |||
**-Work kept her away from SAGE, but the two managed to keep a good rapport. | |||
**-Spent more time with her other children, PDP-1 and CTSS. | |||
**-Employed and in good health until 1959. | |||
**-Was subject to a series of experimental surgeries. (the TX-0 Project) | |||
**-These extended her life (and led directly to PDP-1's birth), but stressed her system. Spent the next decade or so in and out of a coma. | |||
**-Died 1973. | |||
**-Dons ornate 19th century-style gowns (labcoats while on the job), vacuum-tube inspired jewelry, tied her long hair in braids and with ribbons. Wears glasses. |
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