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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 has a modified clone, 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'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. | ||
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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== | ||
