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{{OSinfobox
|image = pdp10.png

|cname = PDP-10
|alias = fka PDP-6; KA10, KI10, KL10, KS10, DECSystem-10
|hname = Cassandra Kotok
|debut = 2012
|height = 6'
|haircolor= Brown
|eyecolor= Blue
|weapon = Sword 
|apfaction = Formerly [[DEC Military]]
|lineage= PDP, PDP-10 
|rival= IBM mainframes, VAX

|osper = PDP-10 and PDP-6
|osdev = Digital Equipment Corporation
|reldate = 1964 (as PDP-6); 1966 (AS PDP-10)
|lastrel = 1983
}}

==Technical details== 
The PDP-10 line was a family of 36-bit mainframe computers manufactured by DEC in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s. It has a number of notable achievements and firsts, including popularizing timesharing, spawning the highly-influential TOPS-10, TENEX, WAITS and ITS operating systems, the editor EMACS, the first spellchecker, and impacting the design of computers to come. Highly popular with academic and research institutions, clones of the PDP-10 were built by organizations that couldn't obtain actual DEC hardware. 

A number of PDP-10s exist today in varying states of operation. Several PDP-10 emulators have been created, allowing modern users to run PDP-10 software on their home computers.

==Character details==
====Notes====
''At this time, PDP-10-tan represents both the PDP-10 and its direct ancestor, the PDP-6.'' 

''An earlier personification of PDP-10 depicted the character as a shaggy man in casual clothing and a labcoat. However, that personification has fell out of favor with the creator. It is unknown if this PDP-10-kun will be considered a male counterpart to PDP-10-tan; a personification of a different PDP-10 model (for instance, the DECSYSTEM-20), or omitted from the DEC roster and OS-tan fanon entirely.''

====General====
PDP-10-tan is depicted as a tall, athletically-built woman with medium-length brown hair, blue eyes and glasses. She generally dresses casually, preferring t-shirts or sweaters and shorts with stockings or tights. 

Her personality is typically placid, guileless and friendly; although she may come off as a bit shy or aloof due to her laconic nature, she is actually quite comfortable in groups and physically-affectionate with friends. Because of these personality quirks, she is often mistaken as childlike or ignorant to the ways of the world - in reality, she is perfectly mature and no stranger to the realities of life, but prefers not to trouble herself with such things. 

In spite of her gentle nature, she feels a powerful obligation to protect her faction. She is a skilled fighter - perhaps THE most well-trained hardware-tan in the DEC faction - and possesses the strength and bravery to take on large mainframe-tans in battle. 

==History and background==
PDP-10-tan was born into the DEC family in 1963, under the name PDP-6. The first true mainframe-tan born in the minicomputer faction, her arrival was treated with fascination by [[PDP-1]], [[PDP-4]] and [[PDP-8]]-tan. They were welcoming of their new comrade, valuing both her friendship and her strategic value as a large-scale system capable of conquering yet-untouched territories and defending them from the encroachment of the IBM faction. 

Not too long after PDP-10's introduction in 1964, a native OS was crafted to work with her - [[TOPS-10]]-tan (then called PDP-6 Monitor). TOPS-10-tan was the first documented OS-tan in the DEC faction, and would later become the leader of their [[DEC Military | defense force]].

Like the other DEC hardware-tans, PDP-10-tan spent a fair amount of time traveling and working at organizations outside of her home region. She became renown for her work in physics, artificial intelligence, and pioneering the then-new concept of timesharing. Her intelligence and unique way of thinking gained her a place among that strange, burgeoning cabal of academia, The Hackers; during the 1960s and 70s (or Elder Days, as they would later be called), she witnessed the creation of some of the great figures of their society, notably [[ITS]], [[WAITS]], [[TOPS-20 | Tenex]] and the editor [[Emacs]].  She helped guide and assist this new generation of OSes and softwares - and programmers - becoming nearly universally-beloved by her followers. 

However, by the 1980s cracks started to appear in the culture she had helped make a reality. The competing school of Hackerdom - led by the Unix family, PDP-11 and VAX - had slowly bled the the life from the comparatively baroque ''Elder Days'' Hacker culture. The death knell of their kind was the deposal of ITS and PDP-10 from MIT in 1990. 

Today PDP-10-tan lives in retirement in an enclave of former DEC hardware-tans. 

====Family and Relationships====
PDP-10-tan maintains a good relationship with most, if not all, of her OS-tans. Her relationship with TOPS-10 and TENEX-tan is rather sisterly, while her friendships with WAITS and ITS were marked by intense platonic love - in particular, her relationship with ITS could almost be mistaken for romance by those unaware of their mutual, near-total absence of romantic interest. 

Among the DEC hardwares, PDP-10-tan got along especially well with PDP-11-tan - something of an irony, considering the minicomputer's later role in displacing PDP-10 and her people. 

==Theories and notes==
**At some point in her youth, PDP-10-tan was injured in a car accident. It didn't seem to have any great impact on her overall physical health, though. 
**Her first journey from home was a trip to Australia.  
**She's really fond of dogs.
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