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#61

General Chat / Re: Why is the forum so quiet?

Last post by VonDaab - August 30, 2025, 03:44:13 PM

Been wondering what's with the huge number of "guests" on the site, but no actual activity.
Like, just 2 weeks ago there was apparently over 3000 guests on the site simultaneously.

Just bots scraping the site?

#62

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

Last post by VonDaab - August 28, 2025, 04:13:56 PM

Very helpful Clippie.

_{The tiddy veins are [chefs kiss] too.}

Really not a necessary detail, but it's there anyways.

#63

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

Last post by Bella - August 27, 2025, 07:00:38 PM

Based Clippy :3

Fabulous art as always! I love her gold tieclip. _{The tiddy veins are [chefs kiss] too.}

#64

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

Last post by Bella - August 27, 2025, 06:32:54 PM

Fullsize

Design notes for EDSAC-tan & MADM-tan (a.k.a. Manchester Mark 1, f.k.a. Manchester Baby), because I was feeling inspired for their physical designs.

I'll finish up bios & post them in the appropriate thread at some point.

#65

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

Last post by VonDaab - August 24, 2025, 02:47:04 PM

Something silly.

#66

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

Last post by Bella - August 21, 2025, 10:48:41 PM

Them!  The ladies look really good together, the colors are great, their outfits are wonderful.  I don't know that I can comment on hidden details though...
Look at her!  Trying to pioneer the American version of sukeban.

Posted the answer key on tumblr...

A kind of American sukeban known as "EDVAC".


Cheesecake time ft. a variety of poses I found in my pinup book. Left to right:
- Whirlwind-tan. I finally remembered to draw her with her leg braces. I hope she's recognizable with her hair up in rollers.
- SAGE-tan. First pose is taken from an archery pinup, the second pose/outfit is from the Miike Snow "My Trigger" music video.
-Plan 9-tan bnuuy girl~~

#67

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

Last post by Bella - August 18, 2025, 08:43:20 PM

Ahhhh!  You finished her!  EDVAC-tan really was plagued with so much misfortune and the best anyone seems to be able to say is that she was the second best computer at Aberdeen.  I guess that's the sorrow a lot of her contemporaries too.  How do you think she gets along with the likes of ORDVAC-tan or NAREC-tan?  Not to mention the up-and-coming commercial replacements.  Did she inherit her "dads" suspicion of RCA and IBM?

Still trying to answer that myself! I think EDVAC-tan would be frosty but professional toward ORDVAC-tan and her kin. Though ORDVAC-tan never hurt her directly, I don't think she would be able to forgive the sins of the mother (so to speak) as easily as ENIAC-tan. I think she would be quite suspicious of the RCAs and IBMs, and be worse off than ENIAC-tan in the sense that she can't even really take pride in the Univacs.

Edit: I do wonder what (if anything) EDVAC-tan thinks about Whirlwind-tan, given she was a part of the cohort of early computer-tans 'inspired' by her, but *not* an IAS clone.

I made a few small changes to her design while drawing her. Mostly, references to the delay line memory that EDVAC debuted, which I forgot to incorporate the first time around. I swapped her hair and eye color to silver, both a reference to the mercury used in its memory, and to draw a parallel to IAS-tan. I also gave her a long cigarette holder and smoking habit, a reference to the long, thin pipes of the delay line. (It doesn't really do anything *for* her as an automaton and a computer, it's more of a nervous tick than anything else.)

EDSAC-tan and Manchester Baby/Mark I/MADM-tan will be next! I have a solid idea for EDSAC-tan but am still at a loss for personifying Manchester Mark I...

#68

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

Last post by stewartsage - August 18, 2025, 08:24:58 PM

Them!  The ladies look really good together, the colors are great, their outfits are wonderful.  I don't know that I can comment on hidden details though...

Thank you Goujer! This is a fun style to work in, I'd like to do more vintage OS-tans in period-inspired art styles.

EDVAC-tan with a couple of design revisions from my original post. I'll say a bit more in the thread later.

Look at her!  Trying to pioneer the American version of sukeban.

#69

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

Last post by Bella - August 18, 2025, 04:03:53 PM

Thank you Goujer! This is a fun style to work in, I'd like to do more vintage OS-tans in period-inspired art styles.

EDVAC-tan with a couple of design revisions from my original post. I'll say a bit more in the thread later.

#70

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

Last post by Goujer - August 18, 2025, 02:05:18 PM

Damn this is so hella gorgeous Bella.
The styling is amazing, so vintage yet modern!