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==History and background==
==History and background==
She is the only home computer among the DECs, a faction otherwise entirely made of high-end minicomputers and mainframes. That left her struggling with an identity crisis and indecisiveness, being the odd one out.  
===DEC Military years===
Rainbow 100-tan was the sole home computer among the DEC Military, and was created to establish a foothold for them in the home computer market. She was also created with three different modes allowing her to achieve different roles. She served as a cadet under VMS-tan's division, but was also the ambassador of the DEC Military to the Microsoft-IBM Family in the 1980's. Her MS-DOS mode was used for her ambassador role, but she was not very good at maintaining it.  


Being the only home computer in the faction didn't make her inherently inferior to her comrades, she just served in and led in a different sector than the rest of them. She was the sole member of DEC's home computer sector even as a cadet, she was to expand DEC's influence into the home computer territory, and she needed to follow different standards than the rest of the DECs. There was practically no one in the faction who could give her any guidance for how to follow those different standards, so she was on her own.
She had an identity crisis since she was meant to be a home computer, but also competed in the business markets, where her main competitors were MS-DOS-tan, PC-DOS-tan, and [[Apple II | Apple II-tan]]. She tried to follow the industry standards created by MS-DOS and PC-DOS, but did not completely follow them, and her attempt at a compromise did not work.  


Mainly business-oriented, her main competitors were MS-DOS, PC-DOS, and Apple II. She sought out to follow the industry standards created by MS-DOS and PC-DOS, but didn't completely follow their standards out of the fear of losing her identity. Her attempt at a compromise didn't do her any good.  
Her campaigns gained little territory for DEC. She could not lead them confidently, and she never got promoted past the cadet rank. Her service ended in 1985, but she remained with the DEC-tans in civilian roles as a teacher and an engineer.  


Her identity crisis left her with a confused and wishy-washy attitude, she couldn't carry out any campaigns with confidence. Many of her campaigns failed, she gained little territory for DEC from the IBM PCs, and she never got promoted. She was discharged from service around 1985, and spent much of her life afterwards living as a Wanderer.
===Post-DEC===
After the DEC Military disbanded in 1998, she was briefly part of the Compaq faction, and then was a wanderer afterwards. She was an early recruit into the Confederation of Independent OS-tans, but eventually left to be a wanderer.


==See also:==
==See also:==
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