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*'''Quick Facts:'''
*'''Quick Facts:'''
-SAGE's daughter.
**-SAGE's daughter.
-A fill-in for SAGE, she was prevented from being with her mother for reasons of operational security.
**-A fill-in for SAGE, she was prevented from being with her mother for reasons of operational security.
- The two had a loving relationship otherwise and often corresponded by letter.
**-The two had a loving relationship otherwise and often corresponded by letter.
-As spirited as her mum but rather unmotivated.
**-As spirited as her mum but rather unmotivated.
-Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion.
**-Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion.
-Prone to boredom.
**-Prone to boredom.
-Spends her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment.
**-Spends her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment.
-Has swift reflexes and a keen sense of observation.
**-Has swift reflexes and a keen sense of observation.
-Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes.
**-Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes.
-Died in 1983.
**-Died in 1983.
 
===ENIAC===
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*'''Name:''' ENIAC-sama
*'''aka:''' Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
*'''Debut:''' ~1943-1945
*'''Died:''' 1955
*'''Height:''' 170 cm (5'7")
*'''Weight:''' 59 kg (130 lb)
*'''Eye Color:''' Grey
*'''Hair:''' Black
 
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-A mathematician, employed to do work too difficult for human beings.
**-Worked for the US Army during WWII.
**-Suffers from antero-retrograde amnesia.
**-Chronically sickly and mentally unstable, she needs an entire staff to tend to her upkeep.
**-Had an entirely female entourage.
**-Loves baubles and adorns herself with gaudy jewelry.
**-Obsessed with counting things, she's worked out a system of keeping track of her counts using rings on her fingers.
**-Uses decimal, not binary as later generations of computers would.
**-Biologically one-of-a-kind, she exerted a great deal of influence upon later computers-tans but left no actual descendants.
**-Considered EDVAC her heir.
**-Rivalrous toward Atanasoff-Berry Computer and Z3-tan.
**-Mice have been known to next in her ridiculously complex outfits.
**-Died from a lightning strike in 1955.
**-Dresses in solid black Greco-Roman-looking outfits decorated with jewels, keeps her hair tied into braids and veiled, wears delicate flip-flop type shoes.


===Harvard Mark I===
===Harvard Mark I===
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*'''aka:'''  
*'''aka:'''  
*'''Debut:''' 1947
*'''Debut:''' 1947
*'''Died:''' unknown
*'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4")
*'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4")
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
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**-Usually wears her hair in pigtails, and wears an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants.  
**-Usually wears her hair in pigtails, and wears an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants.  
**-Wears a black+grey polka-dotted vest.  
**-Wears a black+grey polka-dotted vest.  
===IBM SSEC===
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*'''Name:''' IBM SSEC
*'''aka:''' Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, "Poppa"
*'''Debut:''' 1948
*'''Died:" 1952
*'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4")
*'''Weight:''' 51 kg (113 lb)
*'''Eye Color:''' Gold
*'''Hair:''' Red
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-A skilled astronomer.
**-Considered the most beautiful -tan of her era.
**-Kept "on display" at IBM HQ in New York City, a living testament to her company's technological might.
**-Unlike most OS-tans of that time, she relishes public attention and being in the limelight.
**-Doesn't let anyone forget that she knows Thomas Watson Sr. personally.
**-Arguably more knowledgable than her cousin, Harvard Mark I.
**-Locked in a quiet conflict with her cousin (Harvard Mark I), whom she brags about having superiority over.
**-Died 1952; she lived a short life, even by 1940s-50s standards.
**-Dresses in ornate Roman-style outfits.


===Whirlwind I===
===Whirlwind I===
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*'''Name:'''
*'''Name:''' Whirlwind-hime
*'''aka:'''
*'''aka:''' Whirlwind I
*'''Debut:'''
*'''Debut:''' 1944
*'''Height:'''
*'''Died:''' 1973
*'''Weight:'''
*'''Height:''' 170 cm (5'7")
*'''Eye Color:'''
*'''Weight:''' 61 kg (135 lb)
*'''Hair:'''
*'''Eye Color:''' Blue
*'''Hair:''' Black


*'''Quick Facts:'''
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-A lifelong Hub resident, she speaks with a heavy Boston accent. (tending toward a Dorchester dialect)
**-An engineer by trade .
**-Originally a Naval reservist, later discharged and employed by the Air Force.
**-Harbours a vendetta against the Navy, her discharge from which she took as a personal affront.
**-Generally good-natured and genteel.
**-Been known to display an ill temper at times.
**-Played an instrumental part in the creation of two of her three children.
**-Considered creating and raising SAGE her life's motivation.
**-Work kept her away from SAGE, but the two managed to keep a good rapport.
**-Spent more time with her other children, PDP-1 and CTSS.
**-Employed and in good health until 1959.
**-Was subject to a series of experimental surgeries. (the TX-0 Project)
**-These extended her life (and led directly to PDP-1's birth), but stressed her system. Spent the next decade or so in and out of a coma.
**-Died 1973.
**-Dons ornate 19th century-style gowns (labcoats while on the job), vacuum-tube inspired jewelry, tied her long hair in braids and with ribbons. Wears glasses.
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