ZX Spectrum
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| Also Known As: | Sinclair ZX82 |
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| Original Creator: | C-Chan |
| First appearance: | Unknown |
| OS Personified: | Various ZX Spectrum operating systems + Sinclair BASIC |
| OS Developer: | Sinclair |
| First Released: | April 1982 |
| Latest Stable Release: | ZX Spectrum +2B c.1987 |
At the time of this writing, the only known renditon of any ZX Spectrum model OS-tan is a representative catch-all for the entire ZX Spectrum line, including the ZX Spectrum+, 128, +2 and +3. The decision not to settle on any particular system was due to the lack of any clearly-defined internal operating system aside from the Sinclair BASIC programming language (although later models were capable of running CP/M.
She is depicted as a young adolescent girl, sweet and mild-mannered, but also radiating a playful and tacit wisdom indicative of her age and former popularity around the world. She wears glasses, has her sandy-blonde hair usually tied forward in long pigtails, and dons a vested brown uniform that alludes to her British origin. Her pleated skirt is alsoemblazend with the rainbow parallelogram that used to be the Spectrum logo.
In addition to her base clothing, she also accessorizes with intentionally color-mismatched items, a reference to the Attribute Clashing which severely affected the original system and its software/games. The accessories will often be of divergent cultures as well, owing to the ZX Spectrum's popularity outside of 1980's Western markets, specifically in Brazil and the former Soviet Union.
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