Deceased OS-tan Annex Bios

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Deceased OS-tans

BUIC

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• Name: BUIC-san
• aka: Backup Interceptor, "Becca"
• Debut: 1971
• Died: 1983
• Height: 155 cm (5'1")
• Weight: 47 kg (105 lb)
• Eye Color: Blue w/ gold highlights
• Hair: Red

• Quick Facts:
  • -SAGE's daughter.
  • -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.
  • -As spirited as her mum but rather unmotivated.
  • -Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion.
  • -Prone to boredom.
  • -Spends her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment.
  • -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.
  • -Died in 1983.

CTSS

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• Name: CTSS-san
• aka: "Compatible Timesharing System", "Tess"
• Clan: MIT
• Debut: 1961
• Died: 1973
• Height: 168 cm (5'6")
• Weight: 56 kg (123 lb)
• Eye Color: Red-brown
• Hair: Dark red

• Quick Facts:
  • -Served as a teacher and trained several young OS-tans during her life at MIT.
  • -The adoptive mother of Multics-sama, CTSS-tan is typically considered the ultimate ancestor of Unix.
  • -Feels her greatest accomplishment in life was caring for the young (and sickly) Multics and seeing to it that she reached adulthood.
  • -Also proud of her tutelage of ITS-tan and CP/CMS-tan.
  • -Considerably less grandiloquent than her daughter, CTSS is sometimes mistaken to be a simple or dull personality-- something compounded by her emotionless demeanor.
  • -Is distant toward most people and OS-tans, at least those who aren't close friends or her student.
  • -A sinophile, she enjoys dressing in Chinese-inspired clothing and partaking in Chinese cultural activities.
  • -A daughter of Whirlwind-hime and sister of SAGE and PDP-1.
  • -Died young, in the year 1973, on the same day as Whirlwind.

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DOS-11

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• Name: DOS/Batch 11-tan
• aka: DOS-11
• Clan: DEC, PDP-11 line
• Debut: 1970
• Died: circa 1974
• Height: 150 cm (4'11")
• Weight: 47 kg (104 lb)
• Eye Color: Light green
• Hair: Silver

• Quick Facts:
  • -Borderline psychotic.
  • -Notoriously temperamental and unpredictable, even toward her friends and users.
  • -The adoptive mother of RSTS and RT-11. Claims to be RSX's mother, despite no evidence of their being related.
  • -Wields a butcher knife and established the DEC-tan tradition of bladed weaponry.
  • -Particularly enjoys messing with Unix-sama, with whom she has a rivalry.
  • -Abusive toward RT-11, who she felt stole her userbase.
  • -A bit weak and sickly, but doesn't allow her handicaps to get in her way.
  • -Physically a short teenage girl, with short silver hair, glasses and a red and white schoolgirl-like uniform
  • -Died sometime in the mid 1970s.

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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 anterograde 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

• Name: Harvard Mark I-sama
• aka: IBM ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator)
• Clan: IBM (defected)
• Debut: 1944
• Died: circa 1950's
• Height: 165 cm (5'5")
• Weight: 52 kg (116 lb)
• Eye Color: Green
• Hair: Brown

• Quick Facts:
  • -Born in the Old IBM Society but sent to Harvard University in her youth.
  • -Has largely forgotten her short time spent at IBM.
  • -Rejected her birth-name of ASCC for the title "Mark I“, along with all ties to the IBM culture.
  • -Surprisingly psychologically-stable for a -tan of her time.
  • -Felt lonely as the only computer-tan in her town, something that lessened when she discovered and befriended Whirlwind.
  • -Intelligent and learned but perhaps a bit out-of-touch with the real world.
  • -Outwardly meek and withdrawn, but warms up with familiarity.
  • -A WAVES ensign, her skills were put to use by the US Navy.
  • -Mother of Harvard Mark II, III and IV.
  • -Suffered from empty-nest syndrome when her two eldest children were removed from her care and stationed in Virginia.
  • -Somewhat rivalrous with her cousin IBM SSEC.
  • -Died at an unknown date, interred at Harvard.
  • -Wears Byzantine-style attire, believing herself above wearing a standard Navy uniform; ties her hair in two buns.

Harvard Mark II

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• Name: Harvard Mark II-san
• aka:
• Debut: 1947
• Died: unknown
• Height: 163 cm (5'4")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Gold
• Hair: Brown

• Quick Facts:
  • -A sailor, navigator and mathematician.
  • -Is adventurous, has worked for the navy.
  • -Also does mechanical work, known to be crazy-prepared. (built-in hardware for several functions)
  • -Carries a tool box or tool belt at all times.
  • -Follows the family's traditions and philosophies (the Harvard Architecture), but also works under her own set of strange and strict rules.
  • -Her rules aren't as efficient and easily worries about the smaller details, but gets the job done.
  • -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.

IBM SSEC

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• Name: IBM SSEC
• aka: Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, "Poppa"
• Clan: IBM
• 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

• Name: Whirlwind-hime
• aka: Whirlwind I
• Debut: 1944
• Died: 1973
• Height: 170 cm (5'7")
• Weight: 61 kg (135 lb)
• Eye Color: Blue
• Hair: Black

• 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.