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#41
General Chat / Re: Topicless thread
Last post by VonDaab - November 21, 2025, 06:47:47 AMDiscord pretty much ended my IRC use, but that was back in 2016, back when the internet was still different and not so heavily corpospyware.
With the whole rumour mill about Discord going public, there isn't really any other path than dropping it alltogether.
With the whole rumour mill about Discord going public, there isn't really any other path than dropping it alltogether.
#42
General Chat / Re: Topicless thread
Last post by stewartsage - November 20, 2025, 11:04:02 PMQuote from: VonDaab on October 21, 2025, 03:12:29 AMThere wasnt much people there. Reikart and Suisei. And I think Reikart is a chat4all server moderator.Yeah, I used Pidgin for all my IRC needs. And AIM, YIM, etc. for that matter. Most of the communities I was a part of either petered out or moved off IRC over the years, so I guess I did as well.
In the end its pretty easy to get on IRC. There's so many clients that provide various extras. But what I used to use back in the day was Pidgin, a multiprotocol client that can handle several types of IM protocols at the same time, not very useful these days as many of these are outdated. Pidgin itself is just very easy to use.
Just need to create a new Chat, choose the protocol (IRC) and the server.
#ostan is on Chat4All, and when joining Chat4All server, from the StatServ window that pops up, typing '/join #ostan' sends you to the Os-tan IRC.
#43
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...
Last post by stewartsage - November 20, 2025, 11:01:55 PMQuote from: Bella on November 05, 2025, 07:19:32 PMGiving the people (me) what they (what I) want (a page of computer yuri)Perfection.
Quote from: Bella on November 16, 2025, 01:32:54 PMHad a urge to do sword fighting motion studies with VMS-tan.She should stab more people.
Quote from: Bella on November 20, 2025, 10:56:33 PMHappy 18th Anniversary SAGE-tan!Oh god it's her.
#44
OS-tan Talk / Re: More IBM-tans III: The One...
Last post by stewartsage - November 20, 2025, 10:59:52 PMQuote from: Bella on October 28, 2025, 01:20:27 PMIt has occurred to me re-reading your SAGE-tan writings how much SAGE & GENIAC-chan parallel Whirlwind and Harvard Mark I-tan. Which is to say, now I'm considering Harvard Mark 1-tan and SAGE-chan interactions.I can't imagine she had the patience to deal with Mark 1-tan as a kid.
Quote from: Bella on October 28, 2025, 01:20:27 PMOn a different note, after I finish up the early "EDVAC family" computer-tans, I would like to rework / polish / finish up the PDP-tans. PDP-1, -8 and -11 are pretty good as-is, but PDP-7, -10 and -12 need work.That's quite the project. There is a lot of DEC hardware you could tackle if you let it get out of control. If you can't find anything really gripping about the industrial ones, don't bother just to check a box.
I may also take a shot at -tanning the predecessors/follow-ups to better known models. PDP-4, -9 and -15 in the PDP-1 family, PDP-5 in the LINC/PDP-8 family, and PDP-6 as PDP-10-tan's older sister ... I'm still on the fence about splitting off DECSYSTEM-20 into its own personification, or rolling it into PDP-10's.
There's also the matter of the industrial controller PDPs (-14 and -16), which don't have a lot of flavor but I would like to tackle for the sake of completionism...
Stew, didn't you say you would design a VAX-tan?
PDP-5 went to sea with the Coast Guard, which the regular wiki article on it is very fixated on.
No, but I guess I could do something for what would be the other LINC/PDP-8 kids. If you're doing -5, that would leave -12 and LINC/8, if it was worth separating into another distinct -tan.
I like all the early British -tans you've designed! The other Mark 1-tan might be my favorite, I do love a disheveled egomaniac!
#45
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...
Last post by Bella - November 20, 2025, 10:56:33 PMQuote from: C-Chan on November 20, 2007, 11:37:20 AMSAGE-tan strikes me as one of those stereotypical hot-blooded, smart-mouthed, nuclear trigger-happy yet overly-idealistic American generals from the 1950's, with just a touch of "eggheadness" (like the NASA engineers from 'Apollo 13').
Happy 18th Anniversary SAGE-tan!
#46
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...
Last post by Bella - November 16, 2025, 01:32:54 PM
Had a urge to do sword fighting motion studies with VMS-tan.
#47
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!
Last post by VonDaab - November 14, 2025, 07:43:01 PMShe's a perky eared bun. Just boozed up they flop down.
I have a lop bun too:
I have a lop bun too:
#48
General Chat / Re: Topicless thread
Last post by VonDaab - November 14, 2025, 07:40:54 PMBasically when this forum started.
#49
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!
Last post by Bella - November 14, 2025, 07:39:45 PMObligatory "starting the bottle of soju"/"finishing the bottle of soju" meme with these two pics.
The little dance is so ... mesmerizingly ...cute!! Enough to get me in the holiday spirit. ^^
And the second, well. 0///0
I adore her floppy ears here, lop-ear bunnygirls are criminally underrated.
The little dance is so ... mesmerizingly ...cute!! Enough to get me in the holiday spirit. ^^
And the second, well. 0///0
I adore her floppy ears here, lop-ear bunnygirls are criminally underrated.
#50
OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!
Last post by VonDaab - November 14, 2025, 07:14:32 PMWith it being the company christmas party season already:
Might be bit on the questionable side.
Might be bit on the questionable side.