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Deceased OS-tans

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- -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.

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- -A mathematician, employed to do work too difficult for human beings.
- -Worked for the US Army during WWII.
- -Suffers from antero-retrograde 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.

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- -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- -Outwardly meek and withdrawn, but warms up with familiarity.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.

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- -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.

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- -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.

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- -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.