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#41

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: My 20th -tanniversary Proj...

Last post by Bella - June 03, 2025, 09:43:59 PM

Once I stopped using it I totally lost track.  Although now that we've had an up-close encounter with ARM history maybe...

I've also thought about how to involve ARM history into a hypothetical Mac OS X 11-and-onward-tan. (Or -tans.) But I haven't gotten beyond "possible friendship with RISCOS-tan"...

System 7?

The -tan of something older and rarer, and one I've used this year.

#42

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

Last post by Bella - June 03, 2025, 09:35:37 PM

Well, PDP-8 has a lot of kids already with the various OSes, I can easily see her teaming up with Selectric, who's a pretty affable guy to bring a joint DEC/IBM into the world for no other reason then it would be fun!

Obsessed with PDP-8-tan and Selectric-kun overcoming a decade of DEC-IBM enmity through the power of "it would be fun". But where is LINC-tan in all this? :O

#43

General Chat / Re: random picture thread

Last post by stewartsage - June 03, 2025, 09:25:18 PM

A-6s returning to the sea to spawn

#44

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: My 20th -tanniversary Proj...

Last post by stewartsage - June 03, 2025, 09:18:02 PM

Honestly ... I would be game if I had ideas. Most of what I know about Windows 11 centers on tightened security, reduced user customization, recording everything the user does, and AI integration, which I feel like you could spin into OS-tan design concepts. (Right off the bat I see her as a dominant and surveilling type. Yandere anyone?) I don't know I want to give myself a headache figuring out how generative AI maps into OS-tan terms though.

You know more than I do, but yandere definitely fits that description well.

I wouldn't mind taking a stab at post-Mavericks Mac OS X releases. I feel a bit bad saying it but a lot of the newer OS X releases have run together in my mind. I've thought making one encompassing Mac OS X-tan to cover the ARM releases, though I realize that's very against tradition.

Once I stopped using it I totally lost track.  Although now that we've had an up-close encounter with ARM history maybe...

Can you guess who the final guest in the front row will be?

System 7?

#45

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

Last post by stewartsage - June 03, 2025, 09:13:59 PM

I forgot one. IAS-tan (cat mode) deciding that Whirlwind-chan is a part of the IAS litter... inspired by a comment about the Whirlwind computer being "kidnapped" into the IAS family (often named as such by computer historians despite there existing only a loose link between them)

Awwww, kitty IAS and the ladies~!  Is she wearing cat sized glasses or are they markings around her eyes?

I'll do a write up later but have an improved ENIAC-tan concept.

Mmmm, her as a doll is fitting what with the "primitive" nature of ENIAC as still being tube based and fairly simple.  Much larger scale than GENIAC though, fittingly.  The button panels are a fitting detail.  Invasive.

#46

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

Last post by stewartsage - June 03, 2025, 09:06:40 PM

Is that what we're calling it now? 🤔🤨

Well, PDP-8 has a lot of kids already with the various OSes, I can easily see her teaming up with Selectric, who's a pretty affable guy to bring a joint DEC/IBM into the world for no other reason then it would be fun!

#47

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

Last post by Bella - June 03, 2025, 12:12:10 PM

I'll do a write up later but have an improved ENIAC-tan concept.

#48

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: My 20th -tanniversary Proj...

Last post by Bella - June 03, 2025, 11:28:04 AM

Apple/Mac time!! Starting with Leopard, Snow Leopard, Mac OS 9, Apple II, Apple I & Apple III-tan~

Can you guess who the final guest in the front row will be?

#49

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

Last post by Bella - June 02, 2025, 09:33:38 PM

Love the "Go, do a crime"

It's a favorite of mine from this batch, too!

I forgot one. IAS-tan (cat mode) deciding that Whirlwind-chan is a part of the IAS litter... inspired by a comment about the Whirlwind computer being "kidnapped" into the IAS family (often named as such by computer historians despite there existing only a loose link between them)

#50

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

Last post by Goujer - June 02, 2025, 04:54:15 PM

Love the "Go, do a crime"