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

Last post by Bella - Today at 03:54:54 PM

NEW EARLY COMPUTER-TAN JUST DROPPED!!!

• Cousin of ENIAC, one of the few she gets along with. (Returning Berkeley staff brought back what they learned about the stored program ENIAC to UCB, inspiring the whole project)

ENIAC-heika's family tree grows!!! And in a direction that hasn't cause accidental misfortune for her(?)

• Knows everyone.  Even if you don't know her. (A lot of prominent computer scientists and researchers got their start designing her, leading to a lot of second and third generations computers having surprise connections.)
• Seemed to be everywhere back in the day, a bit creepy with her level of helpfulness. (See above.)

(Guy who has only seen IAS-tan) Getting some IAS-tan vibes off of her.

• Unpopular at the time because she was willing to explain how she did things to humans. (Intended to teach hardware design and engineering.)
• Very proud of her educational role related to all of the above.

Hah! EDVAC-chan inherited her cousin (once removed)'s willingness to talk about computers...

I do wonder what ENIAC-heika would say about that, given she was not to fond of their secrets being revealed ... ^___^;

• Loud and talkative, narrates what she's doing unless asked not to. (Designed with exposed panels for access and modification, making her run very noisy.)
• Always kind of sickly but not enough to stop her. (Constantly modified and improved by a development team of ~40 grad students and professors).
• Naval Reserve officer (Underwritten by six years of Office of Naval Research funding)

Sounds like proper friend material for Whirlwind-hime, or at least a kindred soul, between the outgoing personality, sickly constitution and constant "upgrades", and Naval connections.

I do wonder how CALDIC-sama feels about Whirlwind getting 1 William Dollars a month from the Navy, while she got like $20 and a handshake.

(Then again, they fired Whirlwind-tan and kept her on. ^_____^;;; )

• Part of the ABC Computer cult. (Berry was a major player in her becoming a commercial product.)

I need to know more about the cult! Interesting that she probably knows more about her ancestry, w.r.t. (Kami-?)ABC, than ENIAC did.

• Never actually got to meet her idol ENIAC-sama before she was fried by lightning.

Well, that sucks...

• Permanent enemy of G-15 for trying to kill her. (The prototype G-15 replaced her in the teaching role at UCB.)

Found the only person or thing G-15-tan is willing to kill. Besides vacuum tubes. I'm amused by the idea of them being ops!

• Good friends with Harvard Mark IV (Both had early memory drum systems), SWAC-tan (shared developers and proximity, plus a memory drum), and ILLIAC-tan (also shared a memory drum).

More unlikely friends for Harvard Mark IV! (And SWAC and ILLIAC I guess.)

• Sees RAMAC-tan and IBMs as kind of step-siblings.

She even has the IBM connection like Whirlwind! Also, RAMAC-tan nau plx.

• After surviving G-15's assassination attempt (she freaked out over being replaced, fell over a ficus, everyone thought she had broken), she resurfaced via her commercial variant the ElectroData 203 (officially a separately developed product by the Consolidated Engineering Corporation but in many ways refined CALDIC with a better memory drum.)

Do love it when a computer disappears for awhile and comes back in a new hat. Also, hooray Burroughs! Always felt unfair that BUIC-tan and MCP-tan are the only Burroughs personifications we have.

• Rubbed elbows with the greats of scientific and military computing in the 60s and 70s. Totally forgotten because she wasn't as flashy or powerful.

Another thing she and MADDIDA-tan have in common besides being California Girls. ^.^

• Her powers are some sort of Numeromancy/probability manipulation, which is how she has stayed alive. Much slower and more ritual based than other, later forms.
• Uses weapons summoned from her bank of ideas tested on her in the 50s.

This is dope as hell. Honestly I kinda wanna snag the probability manipulation bit for ENIAC-heika, what with the monte carlo simulation work... summoning weapons based on work she's been involved with is so freaking sick!!

• Status: Alive somehow via emulator

Physical: Built like ENIAC-sama became a real girl.  Or at least one with more advanced SPACE AGE joints.  She still opens up and is prone to parts detaching (limbs, internal bits) from wear, age, and the frequency with which they've been changed (her teaching days and various modern peripherals Burroughs kept adding). Similarly olive skinned to ENIAC, but if she got outside and tanned more. Hair looks almost black is actually Berkeley blue, with golden tips. Used to style her outfits deliberately after ENIAC-sama, but that was too hot/impractical for most of her work. Tended to blend in with stylish business casual when times were good, but these days reverts to comfortable outfits from her youth in the 50s.  Always carrying various notepads, pens, loose wires, etc. 

GORGEOUS, BEAUTIFUL, TRANSCENDENT, I can picture her perfectly in my mind's eye lol. I'm scared to ask if she's mechanical or biological. I loooooove the dark blue hair with gold tips, and that she tried to dress like ENIAC-heika and was defeated by the weather. Maybe she can keep some of her big hats?

I look forward to seeing the rest!

[CALDIC-tan]

#2

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

Last post by stewartsage - Today at 03:13:37 PM

Almost started a new topic for this but it didn't seem fair when this one has been used mostly in the last two years anyway.

Here's the full revision for CALDIC-tan mentioned in the II thread after a lot of supplemental research, so beware, it might speculate a bit since there's not a lot of formal research on CALDIC.

CALDIC-tan (California Digital Computer): AKA Datatron-tan AKA Burroughs 205-tan

• Cousin of ENIAC, one of the few she gets along with. (Returning Berkeley staff brought back what they learned about the stored program ENIAC to UCB, inspiring the whole project)
• Knows everyone.  Even if you don't know her. (A lot of prominent computer scientists and researchers got their start designing her, leading to a lot of second and third generations computers having surprise connections.)
• Seemed to be everywhere back in the day, a bit creepy with her level of helpfulness. (See above.)
• Unpopular at the time because she was willing to explain how she did things to humans. (Intended to teach hardware design and engineering.)
• Very proud of her educational role related to all of the above.
• Loud and talkative, narrates what she's doing unless asked not to. (Designed with exposed panels for access and modification, making her run very noisy.)
• Always kind of sickly but not enough to stop her. (Constantly modified and improved by a development team of ~40 grad students and professors).
• Naval Reserve officer (Underwritten by six years of Office of Naval Research funding)
• Part of the ABC Computer cult. (Berry was a major player in her becoming a commercial product.)
• Never actually got to meet her idol ENIAC-sama before she was fried by lightning.
• Permanent enemy of G-15 for trying to kill her. (The prototype G-15 replaced her in the teaching role at UCB.)
• Good friends with Harvard Mark IV (Both had early memory drum systems), SWAC-tan (shared developers and proximity, plus a memory drum), and ILLIAC-tan (also shared a memory drum).
• Sees RAMAC-tan and IBMs as kind of step-siblings.
• After surviving G-15's assassination attempt (she freaked out over being replaced, fell over a ficus, everyone thought she had broken), she resurfaced via her commercial variant the ElectroData 203 (officially a separately developed product by the Consolidated Engineering Corporation but in many ways refined CALDIC with a better memory drum.)
• Rubbed elbows with the greats of scientific and military computing in the 60s and 70s. Totally forgotten because she wasn't as flashy or powerful.
• Her powers are some sort of Numeromancy/probability manipulation, which is how she has stayed alive. Much slower and more ritual based than other, later forms.
• Uses weapons summoned from her bank of ideas tested on her in the 50s.
• Status: Alive somehow via emulator

Physical: Built like ENIAC-sama became a real girl.  Or at least one with more advanced SPACE AGE joints.  She still opens up and is prone to parts detaching (limbs, internal bits) from wear, age, and the frequency with which they've been changed (her teaching days and various modern peripherals Burroughs kept adding). Similarly olive skinned to ENIAC, but if she got outside and tanned more. Hair looks almost black is actually Berkeley blue, with golden tips. Used to style her outfits deliberately after ENIAC-sama, but that was too hot/impractical for most of her work. Tended to blend in with stylish business casual when times were good, but these days reverts to comfortable outfits from her youth in the 50s.  Always carrying various notepads, pens, loose wires, etc. 

Sources: Digital Computer Newsletter Vol. 2. No. 2 1 May 1950, A Second Survey of Electronic Digital Computing Systems, A Survey of Large Scale Digital Computers and Computer Projects, The California Digital Computer with a Compact Magnetic Memory, Smithsonian National Museum of American History Interview: Professor Paul Morton, Tom's Burroughs 205 page.

This took most of my available time since, surprise, there was more information CALDIC than I expected to find!  VAX, LINC-8, and Circle Computer are next on the list.  Probably later in the week.

#3

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by Goujer - Today at 02:55:17 PM

I am so sorry, Nanami's just my most favorite OS-tan.

You are responsible for 45% of all images on the new gallery. It makes sense it would be skewed towards your taste lololol!

#4

General Chat / Re: How many countries can you...

Last post by oobabasama - Today at 08:45:38 AM

Timer broke at 1:05 but I got 152

#5

OS-tan Talk / Re: More IBM-tans II: The DECk...

Last post by stewartsage - Today at 08:18:50 AM

Malibu ENIAC

#6

General Chat / Re: How many countries can you...

Last post by Lily1027 - Today at 07:56:44 AM

84 (186 remaining)

#7

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by Lily1027 - Today at 07:27:35 AM

We have more Nanami than pixiv, my god...

I am so sorry, Nanami's just my most favorite OS-tan.

#8

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by Goujer - Yesterday at 08:15:08 PM

#窓辺ななみ (Nanami Madobe): 320

We have more Nanami than pixiv, my god...

I wonder what the stats would be like if the entirety of the old gallery was ported over to the booru instance...

One day!

#9

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by Bella - Yesterday at 07:29:39 PM

I wonder what the stats would be like if the entirety of the old gallery was ported over to the booru instance...

#10

OS-tan Talk / Re: OS-tan hot takes

Last post by oobabasama - Yesterday at 06:36:03 PM

She is pretty low on the popularity pole here I guess lol
Here's the current gallery post counts above her:

madobe_nanami 330
xp-tan 192
me-tan 157
2k-tan 149   
madobe_touko 129   
madobe_yuu 128   
madobe_ai 126   
homeko 124   
95-tan 93   
oobaba-sama 66   
98-tan 63   
98se-tan 51   
claudia_madobe 44   
inu-t 38   
ce-tan 34
dos_kitty 33
madobe_mutsumi 33   
moseko 33   
nt-mama 31   
os9-tan 29
saba-tan 25   
vistake 25
aizawa_inori 25   
mac-tan 24   
vulcan_98 23
tiger-tan 22
oichi-san 19
homeo 17
vulcan_98se 17
firefox-ko 15
cheetah-tan 15
leopard-tan_(pink) 14
ruri_azumi 13
ultima-san 13

Here are the numbers on Pixiv:

#大婆様 (3.1-tan): 597
#95 (95-tan): 363 [1]   
#2k (2k-tan): 326 [1]
#窓辺ななみ (Nanami Madobe): 320
#いぬてぃ (Inu-T): 287
#98 (98-tan): 240 [1]
#CE (CE-tan): 212 [1]
#させ子 (XP-tan): 210
#ビスたけ (Vistake): 195
#ほめ子 (Homeko): 146
#窓辺とおこ (Touko Madobe): 130
#Meたん (Me-tan): 95 [1]
#お壱さん (Oichi): 78
#アルテマさん (Ultima): 71
#窓辺あい (Madobe Ai): 47
#窓辺ゆう (Madobe Yuu): 45
#98SE (98SE-tan): 35 [1]
#窓辺むつみ (Madobe Mutsumi): 15



[1]: Unreliable tag, figure is probably inaccurate by some margin