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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by Bella - January 21, 2026, 11:48:10 PM

Your coloring looks so good on all her different outfits!  The only SAGE-lineage -tan that got to do (fun) travel.  SABRE never dies, she just respawns.

Vietnam wasn't fun? Need the werewolf and golden retriever meme but it's SABRE-tan in her original form vs. today as a conglomeration of travel booking sites.


- Family beach day! I like to think that SAGE-chan and PDP-1-chan operate at overly clingy cat levels of "cannot leave Whirlwind alone for even a second"
- Whirlwind-chan charming her Auntie (?) EDVAC!
- This post is just baby Whirlwind. (Charming EDVAC worked.)


I watched Telezonia and instantly understood that I had to draw Plan 9-tan as the AT&T Sprite. (Featuring Unix-sama & Inferno-chan, who I decided to age up to her adult form because it's been long enough. ^_^; )

Featuring Plan 9-tan on her way to live another day in her fucking life...

#2

General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Bella - January 21, 2026, 11:30:09 PM

WHY ARE THERE SUCH ODD QUESTIONS FOR VERIFICATION        please answer me!!!!!

How's that? I registered an extremely long time ago & then left for a long while, so I don't actually know what verification looks like now ... other than it's tighter because of spammers & other bad actors. (Unfortunately.)

At any rate, welcome! Please make yourself at home & feel free to post. The pace of the forum is slow but it's still active.

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Basil143ily - January 21, 2026, 02:58:30 PM

WHY ARE THERE SUCH ODD QUESTIONS FOR VERIFICATION        please answer me!!!!!

#4

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by stewartsage - January 17, 2026, 10:09:52 PM

• ENIAC: turning 80 years old
• Bendix G-15: 70 y.o.
• DOS/360 & OS/360: 60 y.o.
• Cray 1: 50 y.o.

And Multics (60 y.o. as of 2025) as Father Time(sharing), ushering out the old year. . .

What a lineup!  Thirty years between ENIAC and Cray-1.  Ten between G-15 and the 360s...

SABRE-tan in eras of American Airlines flight attendant uniforms.

And as the Roaming Gnome, because she's Travelocity now.

Your coloring looks so good on all her different outfits!  The only SAGE-lineage -tan that got to do (fun) travel.  SABRE never dies, she just respawns.

#5

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by Goujer - January 11, 2026, 11:35:54 PM

Still within the season for this. Happy merriments and such.
Decided to redraw the seasonal Saseko from... 18 years ago.

I'll let you figure out which one is the new one.

HELL YEAH

Merry Christmas!!!!!

#6

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by Bella - January 07, 2026, 07:35:47 PM

SABRE-tan in eras of American Airlines flight attendant uniforms.

And as the Roaming Gnome, because she's Travelocity now.

#7

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by Bella - December 31, 2025, 11:23:59 PM

Yes, yes, VAX-tan.  You've heard my ideas about her, but I'll post them in my thread sometime soon.

>:3c

I love the family connection's you've drawn between the different groups!  Probably not a surprise that the LINC-line is my maybe my favorite, the green outfits with dark hair is very striking, as is -12's green eyes.  -10 looks like she stole that outfit off a Boston & Maine locomotive.  All the small blondes are very cute.

All the creamsicley PDP-8 related OSes have really nice color palette.  RAMP looks fantastic!  Good combination of PDP-8 as one mom and MTS as the other.

Thank you! It's no surprise you like the LINC line or PDP-8s (et. al.) PDP-10 looks like a B&M locomotive? For some reason I thought their color scheme was red.

Gotta compress quite a bit into that frame. That's a good take for SCPSYS, really fits how she was designed.  I think I need to expand/spruce up her characterization tbh, I feel like I left it thinner than it should be.

Yes! I would love to see more SCPSYS characterization!

WAITS-san......

Bad or good time to mention that I can't stop thinking about WAITS x ITS?

TENEX's dual-tone hair is cool.  Honestly forgot MUMPS was a nurse.  Oh look, she's there to keep the saddest time-sharing OS from just falling over.  I like to think BBNTSS-tan is comparing herself to the rest with that side-eye.  DOS and RT-11 look like they're gonna beat me up.  RSX-11's coat and bell bottoms combo is baller.  I'm glad UNIX is miserable to be here.  Where on earth is there VAXELN information kept?  Is VMS here to take my order?  LOL.  ULTRIX very fluffy, very nice.

But you designed MUMPS-tan!!! All of the VAX gang look like they could be waiters, maître d's, etc... you could say they're professional servers _{I'll see myself out.}


Last art of 2025, and first post of '26!


-tans with significant anniversaries this year!

• ENIAC: turning 80 years old
• Bendix G-15: 70 y.o.
• DOS/360 & OS/360: 60 y.o.
• Cray 1: 50 y.o.

And Multics (60 y.o. as of 2025) as Father Time(sharing), ushering out the old year. . .

#8

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by VonDaab - December 31, 2025, 04:23:05 PM

Happy new years and such.
Something stupid doodled on a stream.

#9

OS-tan Talk / Re: More IBM-tans III: The One...

Last post by stewartsage - December 28, 2025, 10:11:08 PM

I fully maintain that the DEC-tans should be a group project! PDPs included.

I'd be curious to hear your EDSAC story ideas! She really is the one who made it out most unscathed. (Well, aside from the being dead for a long while bit.)

Then I'll have to contribute.

Nothing really detailed, just that there might be something to her being a bit more detached from the fate of most early generation computers.  Contrasted against Whirlwind or EDVAC or the like.

#10

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by VonDaab - December 26, 2025, 06:03:42 AM

I was taught to scan monochrome bitmaps, where the scanner would filter out any grey pixels, leaving only solid black lineart. I was told 300dpi was enough detail. But retrospectively if the scanner supported higher, I would've gone for it, even if filesize would've bloated exponentially.

I do remember a 300dpi bmp being easily 50mb or more, which was kinda lot when I was moving stuff around on a 256mb usb stick. Which was big at the time.

There is also a trick photoshop still supports where you can take solid lineart from a flat image and "lift" it off to a separate layer, so you can colour underneath it. Really handy for traditionally inked stuff.