EDVAC
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| EDVAC | |
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| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | EDVAC |
| Other Names | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer |
| Faction | N/A |
| Lineage | Independent |
| Rival(s) | IAS |
| Appearance | |
| Height | Mid 5' range |
| Hair Color | Silver |
| Eye Color | Silver |
| Weapon(s) | N/A |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | Early 2010[1][2] |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | EDVAC |
| Developer(s) | University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Army |
| Debut | 1949 |
| Latest release | 1958 |
Technical details
EDVAC was one of the earliest stored program electronic computers.
Character details
Physical
EDVAC-tan is depicted as a woman of average height, with medium olive skintone, short, curled silver hair, and silver eyes. Like ENIAC-tan, she is an automaton, though her mechanical traits are less apparent, and doesn't have the exposed wires or sockets of her predecessor.[3] She wears a 1940s-contemporary dress with a yellow tie, and hat with short black veil, typically disheveled. She carries counting tools and artillery tables, and can usually be found smoking from a long cigarette holder. When she's on duty, she wears a WAC uniform.[4]
Personality
Her personality reflects ENIAC-tan's pride and primness, without her graciousness or patience. She remains bitterly wounded, although she's gotten better at hiding her regrets she bares her feelings when the conversation turns to her past. Despite her scientific acumen she's less academic than others in her family, instead being hands-on and happiest when she has a practical problem to solve. Despite her achievements she's sabotaged by obsessive tendencies.
Relationships and Family
EDVAC-tan has a close, but complicated relationship with ENIAC-tan,[5] and large, dysfunctional human "family".[6] Initially, she got along with her uncles, but soured after the creation of IAS-tan,[7] with whom she maintains intense one-sided enmity.
At the BRL she found herself forced to work with ORDVAC-tan and BRLESC-tan, whom she eventually warmed up to, even if she never fully understood them.
She is well-regarded and respected in the ordnance computer community, but tends to go unnoticed by the wider world.
History and Background
Artwork
References
- ↑ Early sketch
- ↑ OS-tan pinups
- ↑ Refined ideas pioneered in ENIAC.
- ↑ EDVAC-tan color sketches
- ↑ Though EDVAC was directly inspired by ENIAC, it's defined mostly by its differences from its predecessor.
- ↑ EDVAC development committee frequently in conflict.
- ↑ von Neumann & Goldstein contributed to EDVAC, but fell out with the team after the First Draft controversy.
