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| ==History and Background== | | ==History and Background== |
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| Whirlwind-tan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1940s. She was conceived of as an automaton but became embodied as a living girl. Her creator and human "family" were particularly caring and involved in her upbringing. | | Whirlwind-tan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1940s. She was conceived of as an automaton but became embodied as a living girl. Her creator and human "family" were particularly caring and involved in her upbringing. She worked for the U.S. Navy but was eventually abandoned<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/OS-Interviews-Pt-1-152851849 OS-tan interviews, part 1]</ref>, causing her to avoid anything relating to the organization.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/cptlfrghtr/art/Picnic-Pt-1-144172518 Picnic, Pt. 1]</ref> |
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| A series of experimental operations were performed in an attempt to improved her lifespan, speed and powers, but they were untimely unsuccessful, costing her numerous body parts as well as general mental and physical stability. Especially problematic were the coma-like states she fell in and out of for the next fourteen years.
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| Despite the dire consequences to her health, there were several beneficial effects. Foremost among these, the creation of her second and third children, [[TX-0]] and [[PDP-1]]-tan, whose births would have never been possible without the knowledge gained during Whirlwind's experimental surgeries. In many ways, her two children filled the nest left empty by SAGE's departure, and became a comfort and companion to the ailing Whirlwind.
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| Whirlwind-tan's health became steadily worse with advancing age, and by the 1970s she was in a comatose state more often than not. In 1973, she passed away, shortly after SAGE's final visit with her. Her slow decline and lingering death is suspected to have contributed to SAGE's eventual psychological instability.
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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.
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |