House Of Mac Annex Bios

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House of Mac

Macintosh System 1

• Name: Macintosh System 1-tan
• aka: Mac System 1
• Debut: 1/24/1984
• Height: 125 cm (4'1")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Silver
• Hair: Black

• Quick Facts:

• • - Is feisty, bold, charismatic straightforward and wants to be a leader, but is childish and has a one-track mind.
  • - Is scatterbrained and speaks primarily in newspeak (despite the irony of being an aggressive non-conformist in her youth) because it's easier for her.
  • - Is stronger than she looks and wields a hammer as her weapon of choice.
  • - Still regards herself as a vigilante fighting against tyranny, even though her glory days are long behind her.
  • - Had a rough upbringing before her public debut in 1984, having been forced by Lisa to be her servant.
  • - Was happy to become independent and speak out against Lisa, but now feels sorry for her.
  • - Means well and strives to be a mother figure to all the Mac-tans, though nearly all of them treat her as a little sister figure who needs to be cared for.
  • - Considered GEM a rival and major threat back in '85 and took action against her, but has long since regretted it.
  • - Has reconciled with GEM recently and the two became friends, but still has long-standing rivalries with PCDOS and Sinclair QL. Is also friends with QDOS and PDP-1.

Macintosh System 2

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• Name: Macintosh System 2-tan
• aka: Mac System 2, "Ahiru-chan"
• Debut: April 1985
• Height: 127 cm (4'2")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Silver
• Hair: Black

• Quick Facts:

• • - Looks much like System 1-tan, but has two side ponytails, wears a sash, and a sleeveless dress.
  • - Is observant, witty, and intelligent but desperate for attention and gets forgotten a lot.
  • - Even worse is that unlike the rest of her family, she isn't a good fighter at all.
  • - Appears calm at a first glance.
  • - Likes to give long lectures, read classic literature and discuss philosophy.
  • - Carries around a duck puppet to assist in her lectures to make them more entertaining, with varying amounts of success.
  • - Despite being highly intelligent, she is misunderstood, with few believing what she says.
  • - Cares for her family, but really hates that she cannot be taken seriously, and gets aggressive when ignored. Swears she will get the last laugh some day.
  • - Gets along best with Apple II, Mac OS1, OSX Panther, and OSX Leopard.

Macintosh System 3

• Name: Macintosh System 3-tan
• aka: Mac System 3, "Hisca"
• Debut: 1/16/1986
• Height: 130 cm (4'3")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Silver
• Hair: Black w/ multicolor streaks

• Quick Facts:

• • -Has a bubbly and cheerful disposition.
  • - Loves to wear old-fashioned clothing dyed with unnaturally-vibrant colors.
  • - Gets along with all her sisters, but shares the best chemistry with Mac OS4, Mac OS8, OS9, and OSX Tiger.
  • - Is very cheerful, friendly and outgoing, and has great social skills.
  • - Is the least stable Mac-tan, has a huge fear of bugs and is klutzy.
  • - More efficient and better-organized than her predecessors but still cannot multitask.
  • - A competent fighter with improvised weapons, but only able to show her skills when provoked enough, which doesn't happen easily.
  • - Loves shopping and tinkering with old gadgets, though back in her youth, she introduced new technologies to the Apple Family.
  • - Very fond of OS9-kun, sometimes over-protective. Because of this, she has a rivalry with Windows ME.
  • - Can empathize with ME very well when they aren't feuding over OS9-kun.

Macintosh System 4

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• Name: Macintosh System 4-tan
• aka: Mac System 4, "Semm"
• Debut: 3/2/1987
• Height: 132 cm (4'4")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Silver
• Hair: Black

• Quick Facts:
  • - Has a cheerful and carefree disposition, but also hides an inferiority complex and is known to be fussy at times. (First Mac OS to exclude a Mac model)
  • - Her inferiority complex stems from several things-she can't multitask as well as her younger sisters, introduced only one remarkable feature (MultiFinder in System 4.2), also because of her obscurity, and she felt she failed as a parent.
  • - Is the adoptive mother of Mac System 5, 6 and 7.
  • - Was bitter and depressed in the late 80's, after her own quick obsolescence, Mac System 5's death, Mac System 6's insanity and near-death.
  • - When Mac System 7 turned out to be happy and healthy, her worries waned.
  • - Is stronger than she looks, and has a surprisingly huge appetite. (4.0 excluded the original Mac 128k, 4.1 excluded the 512k)
  • - Used to clash a lot with Mac System 1 over leadership, especially who would be the matriarch, and criticizing Mac System 4 for being a glutton. But now they get along very well.
  • - Decorates her hair with 4 pigtails and 4 cowlicks.
  • - Dons a green shirt with a red skirt, white boots and a grey denim jacket.

Macintosh System 5

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• Name: Macintosh System 5-tan
• aka: "Phantom of the Macintosh"
• Debut: n/a
• Height: 163 cm (5'4")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Pink (right), silver (left)
• Hair: Purple
• note: This character represents both System Software 5 (System 4.2+Finder 6.0) and System 5.0, mainly the latter which doesn't exist.

• Quick Facts:
  • - Died very young of illness, but lives on as a ghost who hangs out with either the Mac House or the Binteeji Renmei.
  • - Like her older relatives, she is semi-retired.
  • - Is invisible to many individuals outside of the Mac circle, but her voice can be heard.
  • - Is quiet, cheerful and friendly.
  • - A talented magician, fortune-teller, organ-player and trickster.
  • - Wears a vaguely Victorian-style purple and white dress, black gloves, cloak, and white boots. Sometimes also wears a "Phantom Of The Opera" style mask.
  • - Wields a magician wand which she uses for magic tricks and multitasking. (her wand represents Multifinder, which was an add-on in System Software 5/System 4.2)
  • - Closest friends are Mac System 4 and 6, and is said to have met the ghost of Apple I.

Macintosh System 6

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• Name: Macintosh System 6-tan
• aka: Mac System 6.0.x, "Antares", "Big Deal", "Six Pack", "Terminator"
• Debut: 4/30/1988
• Height: 185 cm (6'1")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Silver (right), red (left)
• Hair: Dark grey-blue

• Quick Facts:

• • -Was sickly and unstable at birth, had been known to lash out violently if her strength allowed it.
  • -Was soon deathly ill, but her life was saved in late '88-early '89 when she was remade into a nearly immortal cyborg using technology from the future.
  • -Scatterbrained, yet is fast, extremely strong, determined and remarkably stable. (Went from being the least stable Mac OS to one of the most stable.)
  • -Close friends with her stepsister A/UX, who helped her the most with self-improvement in her youth. The two even have a friendly rivalry together.
  • -Was one of the first Mac-tans to befriend NeXTSTEP, is also one of the few to not be scared by OSX Cheetah's antics.
  • -Has at least one scar at all times, to this day she fights against Mac malware-tans, including her sworn enemy ANTI since 1989.
  • -Strives to atone for her acts of unjustifiable violence from her pre-transformation and during the OS Wars, including her one-sided rivalry against Windows 2.0
  • -Is very kind and loyal, though this often gets overshadowed by a boisterous and competitive side.
  • -A writer and programmer, still an avid user of Hypercard technology. (considered one of the best Mac OSes for creative writing, and Hypercard was popularized in the System 6-era)
  • -Teams up with OSX, Cheetah and Mac OS8 to fight against perversion in the Mac House.
  • -Has medium-length grey-blue hair, wears a blue+black minidress with matching boots, gloves, a leather jacket and sunglasses.
  • -Wields a bazooka as her weapon of choice.
  • -Mac System 3.4 is allegedly her twin sister. (both use the same Finder version, Finder 6.1)

Macintosh System 7

• Name: Macintosh System 7-tan
• aka: Mac System 7, "Blue", "Capone", "Pleiades"
• Debut: 5/13/1991
• Height: 170 cm (5'7")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Green
• Hair: Dark blue

• Quick Facts:

--bio pending--

Mac OS8

• Name: Mac OS 8-tan
• aka: Mac OS 7.7 (former), "Tempo", "Veronica"
• Debut: 7/26/1997
• Height: 148 cm (4'10")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Teal
• Hair: Blonde

• Quick Facts:
  • - Has always had a happy and optimistic disposition, but has also grown up to become a bold and foolhardy fighter.
  • - Volunteered to fight in the thick of the PC-Mac OS war at a very young age; though it nearly cost her her life, she was pivotal in turning the fortunes of Apple around.
  • - Formerly known as Mac OS 7.7-tan, her name change was to exploit a loophole to discontinue the Mac Clones, which she was ordered to fight against.
  • - Also managed to save NeXTSTEP-tan's life at one point, who in return became a loyal friend of the Mac-tans and "godparent" to the OSX-tans.
  • - Keeps her short, topped with a rainbow Apple beret similar to her old Apple swimcap, and a bondi blue bandana.
  • - Dons a grey shirt with an "8"-shaped necklace, bondi blue shoes, and choice of either a rainbow Apple or bomb-themed skirt.
  • - Is still fairly scratched up from the war, and still keeps her left leg wrapped in bandages out of a warped sense of fashion.
  • - Is a proficient bomb-wielder, and often accompanies Mac-tan on the daily "sorties" against perverts.
  • - Considers it a pet peeve that her sisters seem to relish showing visitors her baby pictures.

Mac OS9

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• Name: Mac OS9-tan
• aka: "Sonata", Mac OS 8.7 (former)
• Debut: 10/23/1999
• Height: 160 cm (5'3")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Blue
• Hair: Blonde

• Quick Facts:
  • -Holds title as the most commonly-known and revered Mac OS-tan.
  • -Has sweet, well-mannered and classy disposition, but is occasionally prone to fits of violence and perversion.
  • -Dons a white dress with a Mac face logo motif on the skirt, and white "dockbar" sleeves and boots.
  • -Keeps hair short, decorated by giant "9' hairclips and a long cowlick streaked across her face.
  • -Loves to paint and judge artwork in general, but also has a less-than-subtle appreciation for nude modeling.
  • -Is virtually worshipped by the OSX-kuns.
  • -Is relatively civil with the Windows-tans compared to the average Mac-tan, and has been seen hanging around the most with ME-tan and XP-tan.
  • -Is somehow the universal "big sister" to the OSX-tans and even to some of the older classic Mac-tans.
  • -Enjoys Mac-tan's company the most, since they've been together the longest.
  • -Enjoys OS9.2-tan's company the least for some reason.

Mac OSX Server

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• Name: Mac OSX Server-tan
• aka: "Rhapsody"
• Debut: circa 1999
• Height: 178 cm (5'10")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Blue
• Hair: Blonde

• Quick Facts:

• • -Is friendly, motherly and cheerful, but is a shut-in. (not released to the public)
  • -Does not like to go outside or be seen in public if it can be helped. However, she has made some progress in recent years. (has some hobbyist following)
  • -Mother of Darwin OS and the OSX-tans, is NeXTSTEP's biological sister, and cousin of A/UX. Was adopted into the Mac culture by the Classic Mac-tans.
  • -Her daughters and the Classic-tans, though not related by code consider each other sisters just the same.
  • -Serves food and homemade apple cider to guests.
  • -Is diplomatic, and is the official Mac House ambassador.
  • -Friends with Solaris, Windows NT and 95 OSR 2.5.
  • -Drives a yellow boxcar. (referencing the Yellow Box foundation)
  • -Wears a white dress with black stripes, a blue+yellow skirt layer on top, along with white gloves and leggings.
  • -Has shoulder-length blonde hair in a flip-do, secured with a red Apple logo pin with a white X (as in OSX) on it.

Mac OSX Cheetah

• Name: Mac OSX 10.0-tan
• aka: "Cheetah-tan"
• Debut: 3/24/2001
• Height: 180 cm (5'11")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Red
• Hair: Lilac

• Quick Facts:
  • -Is something of a dominatrix.
  • -Wears futuristic-styled black minidresses with long gloves, an eye patch and fishnet stockings.
  • -Is mischievous and playful, but at times her ideas of playfulness border on the sadistic.
  • -Has the largest breasts of the OSX-tans (OSX Cheetah's requirements were relatively high, twice that of OS9's)
  • -Lacks self-confidence, is clumsy, and is the least stable of the OSX-tans. Three weaknesses she wants to hide at all costs.
  • -Gains confidence when treated with affection.
  • -Likes to model for Mac OS9-tan.
  • -Considered very scary by most of the Mac-tans, and is feared the most by the OSX-kuns because she's at least as perverted as they are.
  • -Strangely enough, teams up with System 6, Mac OS8 and OSX to fight perversion in the Mac House.

Mac OSX Puma

• Name: Mac OSX 10.1-tan
• aka: "Puma-tan"
• Debut: 9/25/2001
• Height: 145 cm (4'9")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Light green
• Hair: Blue

• Quick Facts:
  • -Is shy, mousy and insecure.
  • -Second shortest of the OSX-tans, as Puma was a rather small update from Cheetah.
  • -Talks very little and spends most of her time attending the house.
  • -More stable than Cheetah, but still lacks self-confidence.
  • -Frequently picked on by OSX and Cheetah into being the maid of the house.
  • -Complies often due to being non-confrontational.
  • -Wears a sleeveless, white-collared black dress with a green bow and blue "X"s.
  • -Closest friends with fellow introverts Mac System 4-tan and 7-tan, but gets along well with all of her family.
  • -Is trustworthy, and her sisters are known to confide in her, and the more willing, in turn want to help her out.

Mac OSX Jaguar

--bio pending--

Mac OSX Panther

--bio pending--

Mac OSX Tiger

--bio pending--

Mac OSX Leopard

--bio pending--

Mac OSX Snow Leopard

--bio pending--