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===Personality=== | ===Personality=== | ||
Whirlwind-tan is intelligent, amicable, and likes to keep herself busy. | Whirlwind-tan is intelligent, amicable, and likes to keep herself busy. Despite numerous setbacks, and being in pain for much of her early life,<ref>StewartSage, personal communication</ref> she has a relentlessly optimistic personality, and conducts herself with a degree of propriety that comes off as a bit old-fashioned. Despite everything she's done, she doesn't feel especially accomplished. <ref>StewartSage, personal communication, April 2026</ref> | ||
===Powers=== | ===Powers=== | ||
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==Family and relationships== | ==Family and relationships== | ||
Whirlwind-tan has three children: eldest daughter [[SAGE | SAGE-tan]], middle child [[PDP-1 | PDP-1-tan]] and [[CTSS | CTSS-tan]], whom she adopted. | Whirlwind-tan has three children: eldest daughter [[SAGE|SAGE-tan]], middle child [[PDP-1|PDP-1-tan]], and [[CTSS|CTSS-tan]], whom she adopted. | ||
She's befriended a wide range of computers both at her institution and elsewhere. She's especially close with [[Harvard Mark I | Harvard Mark I-tan]], Harvard Mark IV-tan, and [[GENIAC | GENIAC-chan]], whom she looked after when SAGE departed. | She has a modified clone, [[Memory Test Computer|Memory Test Computer-tan]], who acted as her personal companion and support. MTC eventually donated her heart to Whirlwind.<ref>Bella's OS-tan art thread [https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg177442.html#msg177442]</ref> | ||
She's befriended a wide range of computers both at her institution and elsewhere. She's especially close with [[Harvard Mark I|Harvard Mark I-tan]], Harvard Mark IV-tan, and [[GENIAC|GENIAC-chan]], whom she looked after when SAGE departed. | |||
She holds a grudge against the U.S. Navy for abandoning her, and the U.S. Air Force for taking SAGE away, <ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/OS-Interviews-Pt-1-152851849 OS-tan interviews, part 1]</ref> but holds little enmity otherwise. She considers EDVAC-tan something of a brat. | |||
==History and Background== | ==History and Background== | ||
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Through the birth of TX-0 and PDP-1-tan, Whirlwind-tan inspired the creation of an entirely new type of computer: the smaller, nimbler, more efficient minicomputer-tans, whose ranks would swell throughout the next few decades to the point of becoming the dominant computer class. In this way, all computer-tans of the 1960s and 70s can be said to owe their existence to Whirlwind. | Through the birth of TX-0 and PDP-1-tan, Whirlwind-tan inspired the creation of an entirely new type of computer: the smaller, nimbler, more efficient minicomputer-tans, whose ranks would swell throughout the next few decades to the point of becoming the dominant computer class. In this way, all computer-tans of the 1960s and 70s can be said to owe their existence to Whirlwind. | ||
==Theories and notes== | ==Theories and notes== | ||
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*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/WIP-BUIC-Whirlwind-tan-pinups-166623046 Whirlwind and BUIC-tan Pinups] | *[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/WIP-BUIC-Whirlwind-tan-pinups-166623046 Whirlwind and BUIC-tan Pinups] | ||
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