EXEC

Character details

This character represents both the UNIVAC line of computers dating back to the UNIVAC I in 1951, and the EXEC operating system, even though the hardware and OS lines debuted years apart. She changed her name to EXEC-tan with the EXEC OS's debut in 1962.

EXEC is represented as a purple-haired woman in a Renaissance-style dress in the general colors of the UNIVAC machines. She has a lot of ruby jewelry which imitates the round, red lights and dials. Her hair is meters long and partly braided in a ponytail. Its extreme length is symbolic the high complexity of the UNIVAC machines. That symbolism is a bit outdated now since mainframe-tan characters even older than her, and representing even larger systems have been created, but this still remains.

Her hair cannot be cut because it is an extension of her brain and getting it cut would be painful and damaging to her intelligence, reflexes and other functions. To say the very least, it was a very unusual design quirk on the behalf of her creators. Cutting it short or shaving it off would kill her. And since her company has been long-gone, taken with them the only means to perform any kind of corrective surgery to fix her hair, she has to stay like that forever.

She is much too slow and old to handle basic tasks but is very kind, calm, wise and able to provide the voice of reason for the Vintage-tans she lives with. She was melancholy and felt like a useless burden because of her severe limitations but has cheered up since befriending GENIAC-tan, who grew up in the same time period as her (able to relate to her experiences) and bound by strings and limitations of her own.

She gladly volunteered to be GENIAC-tan's caretaker, simply needing to hold her handle and keep her company. And because of EXEC-tan's patience and motherly demeanor, she is also able to easily calm down GENIAC-tan and help her overcome her phobias. In return, EXEC-tan has cheered up, feeling useful and having a friend she can relate to.