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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by VonDaab - Today at 04:49:21 PM

The archive has bunch of unrelated mascots too, so I might have to go through the entire thing.

What I looked through quickly, I had completely forgotten this "Komepo" character. XP copycat Rice?-tan?

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Bella - Today at 03:55:15 PM

Oh shit! I feel like a lot of os-tan pics have disappeared from the web so I'm definitely interested to see what's in there...

Incredible vista personification, I've never seen that one before.

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General Chat / Re: random picture thread

Last post by VonDaab - Today at 01:46:02 PM

Found on old HDD. Mac Performa and a Mac 8100.
Kotobuki Tsukasa, 1995 or 1996.

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by VonDaab - Today at 01:28:48 PM

Found an OS-tan image archive of some 600mb/3100pictures on one of my old external drives. Stuff that I've saved around 2006-2010?

Probably nothing rare in that archive, but wonder what would be a quick way to compare it with the OSC gallery.

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

Last post by Bella - Yesterday at 10:14:30 PM

I want the clippy bikini...

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

Last post by VonDaab - Yesterday at 01:10:51 PM

Summer themed Clippie I never got around drawing clean.

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

Last post by stewartsage - Yesterday at 12:20:19 AM

The regionals?  Maybe.  Most employees wore standard things system wide, might have had the different RBOC logo sometimes though.

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

Last post by Bella - August 23, 2026, 11:46:26 PM

Thanks, I based it on some jackets I saw on ebay. Were there uniforms for any of the bell systems at all?

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Bella - August 23, 2026, 11:34:54 PM

People are getting too comfortable selling collectables for ridiculous prices.

#10

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

Last post by Bella - August 23, 2026, 11:33:37 PM

you've pretty much nailed down most of what i'd contribute, but here's more ideas if you want them:

-can grow/shrink depending on the amount of hardware added? (it seems like they were able to tack on more parts to do more stuff? the sources i can find on her are scant, sorry)
- would likely have ancestors in Europe given that's where study on Differential Analyzers began
- maybe her hair is wire?
- would probably have a slight grudge against ENIAC, though as you stated, she's likely quite confident and self-assured so only a SLIGHT grudge
- has some interest in politics and history given her proximity to WWII
- might be regarded as a bit strange to certain other computers given her differences in terms of origin/core/workings (EBSCO says Bush used an Electrical Meter as his starting point)
- Likely a bit jaded given she was actually completed in 27' (according to EBSCO) and thus saw the crash and chaos the world was thrown into
- Gearhead at heart
- Likes tinkering with things
- any DAs after 1931 are clones of her (Bush published a paper about her in 31' and suddenly everyone had to have one)
- Has an indirect link to COBAL (idk if we have a -tan of her yet)
- inadvertently kicked off the nuclear age, but is likely humble about her role in it

sources:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/bush-builds-first-differential-analyzer/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser
https://www.mit.edu/~klund/analyzer/

Cool beans, thank you for sharing your ideas! ^_^

I've also had more trouble than I would like finding info on the MIT Differential Analyzer, so I don't doubt that. (Tbh the panel at the museum was probably the best description I read, and had info I haven't seen elsewhere.)



At any rate I like the idea of D.A.-tan being able to grow/shrink!

Definitely agreed that D.A.-tan is distantly related to the earlier European differential analyzers & mechanical computers. I guess she and HMI-tan are distant cousins in that sense.

The wire hair is a fun idea! Noting that down, and adding an electrical meter to her design somewhere. Seems like every early computer started from electrical or telephony equipment. (Or radar, later.)

A lot of personifications lived through WWII but she's the only one (to date) who would have witnessed the Great Depression, makes sense that she would be jaded by it. I hadn't considered the D.A. -> Grace Hopper -> COBOL connection! (We don't have a COBOL-tan yet, I don't think, but we probably should.)

I can definitely see D.A.-tan being quiet about her role in nuclear development, letting ENIAC-tan and HMI-tan take the credit (blame?) for that instead. Slight grudge sounds about right...

Oh hey, there she is!  I dunno, does Differential Analyzer have a grudge or disdain for ENIAC?  Sure she's built to replace her, but she's so sickly and didn't contribute half as much to mathematics as she did!  The later ones though...

A good counterpoint! AFAIK, MIT was seriously entrenched in mechanical computing and the prevailing wisdom was that electronic computers were too unreliable to be viable. So I can see D.A.-tan having a bit of a superiority complex toward ENIAC-tan and not take her very seriously. The grudge might kick in when she realizes that ENIAC-tan has actually quite dependable despite her "limitations" (in D.A.-tan's eyes).

Then again, D.A.-tan would outlive ENIAC-tan by several years, so the smugness might've kicked back in...

I wonder how she would feel about Whirlwind-tan, given that she was meant to be a mechanical computer but transmogrified into what she ended up being. Or how Whirlwind-tan would feel about D.A.-tan, for that matter. Another branch in her extended family of mechanical computers?