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 energetic, bold, charismatic, and straightforward, but has a one-track mind. Scatterbrained and speaks primarily in Newspeak because it's easier for her. (Cannot multitask and has a lot of limitations due to the original Mac's 128K of RAM, but a lot could still be done)
  • -Is stronger than she looks, and wields a hammer as her weapon of choice.
  • -Established the tradition of desktop publishing among the Mac-tans.
  • -Is mostly retired, but wants to help out in any way she can, and to continue to be a role model.
  • -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; Lisa treated her like a servant, Apple III was aloof towards her, and Apple II was often away from home.
  • -Was happy to become independent and speak out against Lisa, but now feels sorry for her.
  • -Used to be highly aggressive, and saw GEM-tan as a threat. Her aggression was from worrying over the future of the Mac House when its future was uncertain as early as 1985.
  • -Has reconciled with GEM recently and the two became friends, but still has long-standing rivalries with PC-DOS and Sinclair QL. Is also friends with QDOS, Apple II, and PDP-1.

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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 on her right side, wears a sash, and a sleeveless dress.
  • -Is observant, witty, and intelligent, but desperate for attention and feels forgotten a lot.
  • -Can quickly retrieve information to help others (referencing the Launcher giving quick access to other applications), and can manipulate illusions (Uses a flat file system that gives the illusion of folders)
  • -Sometimes has an inferiority complex because she is not good at fighting, and feels overshadowed, but is happy that she can use her abilities to help her sisters in a support role.
  • -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, and they care for her, but gets frustrated when she cannot be taken seriously.
  • -Gets along best with Apple II, System 1, System 4, OSX Panther, and OSX Leopard.

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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:

• • - Loves to wear old-fashioned clothing dyed with unnaturally-vibrant colors.
  • - Gets along with all her sisters, but shares the best chemistry with System 3.4, System 4, 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 and psychic abilities, 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.
  • -Remained influential as an adviser to her younger sisters for years, and was System 3.4's mentor.
  • - Gets along very well with OS9-kun, but sometimes over-protective of him. Because of this, she has a rivalry with Windows ME, though they sometimes can get along and empathize with each other.

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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- being overshadowed by System 3's achievements, not being able to multitask as well as her younger sisters, didn't introduce as many new features, also because of her obscurity.
  • - Is the guardian of System 5, 6 and 7, but thought she failed them.
  • - Was bitter and depressed in the late 80's, after her own quick obsolescence, System 5's death, and System 6's instability and near-death.
  • - 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 System 1 over leadership, especially who would be the matriarch, and criticizing System 4 for being a glutton. But now they get along very well.
  • - Has short hair with pigtails at the top, and has 4 cowlicks in her hair.
  • - Dons a green shirt with a red skirt, white boots and a grey denim jacket.

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Macintosh System 5

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• Name: Macintosh System 5-tan
• aka: "Phantom of the Macintosh"
• Debut: October 1987 (System 4.2), n/a (System 5)
• 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.

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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. Was almost ineligible to lead the Mac House due to her instability, and had to prove her worth after her stability improved.
  • - Was soon deathly ill, but her life was saved in late 1988 when she was remade into a nearly immortal cyborg using technology from the future.
  • - Is System 3.4's twin sister (same Finder version, released around the same time), but they never fought over which of them would lead the Mac House during their debuts.
  • - Scatterbrained, yet is fast, extremely strong, determined and remarkably stable. (Went from being the least stable Mac OS as System 6.0 to one of the most stable from 6.0.2 onwards)
  • - 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.
  • - To this day she fights against Mac malware-tans, including her sworn enemy ANTI since 1989 because of a vow she made to defend the Mac House against all threats.
  • - This also meant she was hostile towards the Windows-tans, believing all of them to be threats, even Windows 1.0 and 2.0 during the OS Wars. However, she has been able to get along with some of the friendlier and diplomatic Windows-tans after proving they were not threats.
  • - Is kind and loyal, though this often gets overshadowed by a boisterous and highly competitive side that can get aggressive.
  • - 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 stop the OSX-kuns' antics.
  • - Has medium-length grey-blue hair, wears a blue and black minidress with matching boots, gloves, a leather jacket and sunglasses.

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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:

• • - Used to be confident and powerful in her youth after she was promoted, but her ambitions were misapplied and nearly caused her downfall.
  • - Used to be a mobster and hitwoman, but this ended with a failed attempt to knock-out Windows 95-tan as a competitor.
  • - Suffered as a shell of her former self with low self-confidence as a result of the OS Wars, and from failed alliances that promised to make her more powerful.
  • - Was the mentor to 7.5-tan, and considered 7.5-tan her second-in-command.
  • - Largely stoic and nonchalant, for a long time she yearned for revenge against her arch-rival, but feels she doesn't need to anymore.
  • - At some point after, she reconsidered her life and developed a calm composure and continued her sword skills as a form of self-discipline.
  • - Wields a katana, wields it more artfully and responsibly than she used to.
  • - Prefers not to attend the Windows-Mac Family meetings, does not want to risk instigating hostility. Remained hostile towards the Windows-tans for years, but may be willing to reconcile with the more diplomatic Windows-tans.
  • - The calm big sister figure to many of the Mac-tans.
  • - Wears a blue pinstriped suit, an Apple rainbow-colored tie, and glasses.
  • - Recovered from low self-confidence when she helped bring the Mac family back together after OSX Leopard's antics nearly drove away the Classics.
  • - Gets along best with System 4-tan, 7.5-tan, GS/OS-tan, Puma-tan and A/UX-tan.

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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.

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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 worshiped 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.

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Mac OS9.2

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• Name: Mac OS9.2-tan
• aka: "Moonlight"
• Debut: 7/1/2001
• Height: 166 cm (5'5.5")
• Weight: ??kg
• Eye Color: Blue
• Hair: Blonde

• Quick Facts:
  • -Is considered the Apple-equivalent of Windows XP Pro-tan in both appearance and disposition (minus the gluttony).
  • -Is exceptionally sweet and mild-mannered, but not particularly outgoing and is hardly known outside of tight circles.
  • -Dons a white and lilac sailor school uniform (a la XP-tan), a rainbow apple lapel, and white "dockbar" sleeves and boots.
  • -Keeps long blond hair loose (again, a la XP-tan), decorated only by two blue apple-shaped "9.2" hairclips.
  • -Has larger-than-average breasts for a Mac-tan of her era, due in part to her higher hardware requirements (again, not unlike XP-tan).
  • -Is friendly with the Windows-tans, particularly 98-tan.
  • -Enjoys the company of the early OSX-tans the most, but seems locked in some silent competition with OS9-tan for some reason.

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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.
  • -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.

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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 against the OSX-kuns in the Mac House.

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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.

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Mac OSX Jaguar

• Name: Mac OSX 10.2-tan
• aka: "Jaguar"
• Debut: 8/24/2002
• Height: 167 cm (5'6")
• Weight: ?? kg
• Eye Color: Blue
• Hair: Red

• Quick Facts:
  • -The first of the OSX-tans to have a good amount of self-confidence.
  • -Purposefully cheeky and outgoing, likes to joke around.
  • -Energetic, but not quite to the extent of her hot-blooded, even more spirited younger sister OSX Tiger.
  • -Wears a futuristic grey and mauve dress with black boots and a collar.
  • -Along with OSX Cheetah, she likes to pose for Mac OS9's art.
  • -Also is interested in fashion, preferring more modern and futuristic styles.
  • -In the in-house conflicts, she prefers to stay neutral but will poke fun at all sides from the sidelines.

Mac OSX Panther

• --bio pending--

Mac OSX Tiger

• --bio pending--

Mac OSX Leopard

--bio pending--

Mac OSX Snow Leopard

--bio pending--

Mac OSX Lion

--bio pending--

See also

• House of Mac
• OS-tan Annex Project