Deceased OS-tan Annex Bios
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Deceased OS-tans
AMIX
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Apple I
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ARX
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AVIDAC
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BESK
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BESYS
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BOS/360
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BTSS
- Data Pending
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.
CAOS
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CSIRAC
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CTOS
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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.
CYCLONE
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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.
EDVAC
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EMAG III
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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.
GEORGE
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GMOS
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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.
Harvard Mark III
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Harvard Mark IV
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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.
IBSYS
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Kenbak-1
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Manchester Mark I
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MANIAC
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MISTIC
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MONECS
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MUSASINO-1
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MTS
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NLS
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ORACLE
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Oregon State Open Shop OS
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RW-300
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SARA
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SILLIAC
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SpringOS
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SpriteOS
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Thoth
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TOS/360
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TSS/360
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Tynix
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UMES
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WAITS
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WEIZAC
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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.
Xenix
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