Deceased OS-tan Annex Bios

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Deceased OS-tans

AMIX

  • Data Pending

Apple I

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  • Data Pending

ARX

  • Data Pending

AVIDAC

  • Data Pending

BESK

  • Data Pending

BESYS

  • Data Pending

BOS/360

  • Data Pending

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

  • Data Pending

CSIRAC

  • Data Pending

CTOS

  • Data Pending

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

  • Data Pending

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

  • Data Pending

EMAG III

  • Data Pending

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

  • Data Pending

GMOS

  • Data Pending

Harvard Mark I

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  • 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

  • Data Pending

Harvard Mark IV

  • Data Pending

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

  • Data Pending

Kenbak-1

  • Data Pending

Manchester Mark I

  • Data Pending

MANIAC

  • Data Pending

MISTIC

  • Data Pending

MONECS

  • Data Pending

MUSASINO-1

  • Data Pending

MTS

  • Data Pending

NLS

  • Data Pending

ORACLE

  • Data Pending

Oregon State Open Shop OS

  • Data Pending

RW-300

  • Data Pending

SARA

  • Data Pending

SILLIAC

  • Data Pending

SpringOS

  • Data Pending

SpriteOS

  • Data Pending

Thoth

  • Data Pending

TOS/360

  • Data Pending

TSS/360

  • Data Pending

Tynix

  • Data Pending

UMES

  • Data Pending

WAITS

  • Data Pending

WEIZAC

  • Data Pending

Whirlwind I

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  • 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.

WWMCCS

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  • Data Pending

Xenix

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  • Data Pending
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