Ehh... since new people are joining, I might as well update my old intro. Thankfully, my instance allows for a higher word count on posts!

I am Sinclair-Speccy, your resident computer nerd. I go by Sinclair, Speccy, Sinco, Altair, or even Alphonse. My primary interests are #RetroComputing, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads. I’m fascinated by vintage mainframes like the IBM 704, CDC 6500, and Whirlwind I as well as microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and MK14, but I am not old enough to have ever used them in person.

I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space. When not geeking out over computers I enjoy experimenting with older operating systems using emulators like 86Box, VirtualBox, Bochs, and QEMU or playing games such as the Sims 4, Sims 3, Arma 3 and Universe Sandbox. My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s!

I also do 3D rendering in Bryce 3D which I mainly post on my account for my website (https://sakurajima.moe/@themainframe) which also hosts content on my 3 worldbuilding settings and I share some of my work on DeviantArt. One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters. I even have my own OS-tan universe that is hosted on my site.

Musically I vibe with #vaporwave, #synthwave, #darksynth,#phonk, and experimental music. Some favorite artists include Windows96, Dynatron, Carpenter Brut, KSLV Noh, and Frums.

As for some other stuff I enjoy #mythology, #transformers, #cats, #fantasy, #nature such as #flowers and #plants and #animals, #steampunk, a bit of #classicalmusic, #starwars, #photography, #art, #space, #cyberpunk and #scifi but you’re more likely to find that content on my other account.

You can check out my website here: https://sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-Mainframe/index.html and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform someday, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...

Did you know that the concept of "OS-tan" has existed way before even ME-tan was made?

Take OS Idol Win-chan as an example. Win-chan's earliest appearance in media seems to be from a promotional CD by Enterbrain, which dates back as early as October 1998. This would mean that Win-chan predates Me-tan by almost 5 years. It's not specified what Windows version she represents.

Another example can be Magical Toko-chan who is from around 1999. She seems to represent BSD, has a theme song called "Rainbow Holy☆Trident" and has a sister that represents Solaris.

There is also also another "Wintel Miku" although there’s little art of her. She seems to represent WindowsNT4.0/95/98 and was created as the creator was inspired by Mgaical Toko.

Besides Win-Chan, Magical Toko, Solaris-Chan and Wintel Miku all have sites dedicared to them!

Toko: http://tokochan.haun.org/

Solaris-Chan: https://pony.tail.net/toko/sol.html

Wintel Miku: https://web.archive.org/web/20000226063048/http://www.quark-jp.co.jp/~hide/DirectGirl/index.asp

Also fun fact, Win-chan was made by the creator of Sgt.Frog and the concept designer for Kemono Friends, Yoshizaki Mine! This can be seen on his profile for his site here: http://mnet.nicomi.com/MINEprofile/YOSPRO.html

Bleh. I might start reposting my old daily OS-tan posts so they're in order and have alt text by deleting the old ones.

I hope this doesn't bother people, but I think it is easier this way...

When I first did the posts they weren't in any real order so I want to fix that by going in order :p

Published a minor update to my OS-tan "fanon" wiki with a new section on other minor characters. Unlike the other misc characters page this is one uses a different layout with dropdown boxes, and is for characters who in theory do exist which is a fair few but do not have enough information to give them a distinct page, or are getting reworked...

https://sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-Mainframe/personalprojects/OS-TAN-FANON/Others.html

Got bored and attempted to create all my iPhone-tans the best I could in Gacha Life 2. Ignoring all the weird stuff with Gacha Life I think it’s good enough to get basic ideas.

For the first image in order:

First Row:
Jasper (Represents all iPhone 3G models)
Sochi (Represents all iPhone 4 models)
Elise (Represents all iPhone 5 models)
Frisco (Represents all iPhone SE models)

Second Row:
Bursa (Represents all iPhone 6 models including the plus models)
Vivian (Represents all iPhone 7 models including the plus models)
Madrid (Represents all iPhone 8 models including the plus models)
Milan (Represents all iPhone 11 models including the pro models).

Not shown is Tigris (iPhone X-tan) as I forgot to include her.

The second image has my iPhone 9-tan character on the left, Ravenna, and my iPhone 2G-tan on the right. She doesn’t have a name yet

Hello #Fediverse, here's your "daily" OS-kun!

This one is of the Windows 3.1-kun!

3.1-kun is a man wearing a "3.1" medal on his right side and green uniform for the military from the Meiji era. He is seen as the older brother of NT-Mama, the uncle of 95-tan, and the younger brother of 1.0-tan and 3.1-tan. He has an elderly voice when he speaks. He has a DOS companion, just like his -tan counterpart, although his is a humanoid rather than a cat.

He retired with KanjiTalk 7.5-tan after the OS battles. Though he doesn't often appear, he would occasionally test his strength against 2K-kun and XP Pro-kun. Since 3.1-kun isn't shown off much in the fandom, little is known about him or his character. Since he doesn't antagonize other OSes, it's likely that he's retired comfortably or that his years of combat have left him with knowledge that longs for peace.

Decided to do a minor update to MS-DOS-kun's page to address an annoying misconception about MS-DOS's release date that I noticed *all* other MS-DOS OS-tans have. It seems that people mistake the first version of MS-DOS being released in 1981 due to the Wikipedia article, but the MS-DOS name didn't come until Microsoft did their first OEM release to the computer clone makers which was version 1.25 and released in April 1982.

While BetaWiki still has 1981, this is for the unreleased internal release named MS-DOS 1.20 and not the first public release. The source the Wikipedia entry for MS-DOS's release date for it goes to a site that is a brief history of MS-DOS and is going by the release date for the IBM PC, which is August 1981.

However, The MS DOS Encyclopedia, BetaWiki and 16BitOS say otherwise to Wikipedia and use 1982 as the release date. The attached image even shows the MS-DOS name didn't come until 1982 and it was PC DOS that came first as per The MS DOS Encyclopedia, which is published by Microsoft Press. Microsoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies so it would be weird to say the book is false...

Hell, even the first version of PC DOS that came with the IBM PC has 1981 on the BetaWiki for the release unlike the first public version of MS-DOS.

This is why I always dig hard when making characters because people will skim over Wikipedia and not check other sources

#OStan #Gijinkas #Personification #OStans #Gijinka #Anime #OS娘 #OSたん #OCs #Worldbuilding #MSDOS #DOS #writing
#writingcommunity

With the fixes and updates I have been doing to my OS-tan universe seeing someone make a separate character for the Windows 1.0 BYTE magazine demo reminded me of XEDOS and I decided to update MS-DOS-kun's page to address this as UNIX spells he was taught by XENIX. I actually knew of XEDOS prior to doing these changes but remembered it after a while when I forgot about it. For those who don't know, MS-DOS 2.x had a few undocumented Unix-compatible commands built-in that were originally intended to be a part of Microsoft's XEDOS.

XEDOS was going to be Microsoft's 1981 Unix offering for the IBM PC that fitted somewhere between its single-user MS-DOS and its multiuser Xenix, but was never released. Note that these commands were removed from later versions of MS-DOS such as 3.0 and onwards.

Here's a video on it if you are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo8NG8T4rWs&feature=youtu.be

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Hello #Fediverse, here's your "daily" OS-tan art!

This one is of Windows 1.0-tan!

She is one of the lesser known OS-tans and is depicted as the matriarch of the Windows-tans, and the sister and friend of 3.1-tan. Her hobbies are origami and Reversi. These hobbies are derived from the inability to stack windows on top of each other in Windows 1.0, so the windows were arranged like origami papers, and Reversi was commonly featured in screenshots of Windows 1.0.

She normally wears a kimono, but 3.1-tan has sometimes forced her to wear strange outfits. Her favorite food is tsubuan (red bean paste) yokan.

Being born in the Showa period, as per Windows 1.0's release date, she has a retro, old-fashioned mindset and is profoundly nostalgic. She is usually confused by the gap between past and present.

When she is angered, she can produce laser beams from her eyes.

Art by anonymous artists

Hello #Fediverse, here's your "daily" OS-tan art!

This one is of Windows 95-tan!

Her kimono pattern is based on the "Hanami" wallpaper, which was included in the exclusive CD-ROM releases of Windows 95 in Japan, named "hana256.bmp". 95-tan also wears an iconic four-colored ribbon on the back of her hair, which were the colors of the Windows logo.

95-tan is considered one of the more stable OS-tans, but she is sometimes depicted wielding a katana aggressively towards Mac-tans, as well as troublemakers within her own family. This is symbolic of Microsoft's complete domination of the personal computer industry with the release of Windows 95, which led to her aggressive demeanor during the OS Wars. At that time, she actively fought against Mac-tans, including her old enemy Kapone

Art by anonymous artists, except the last one which is by 竜水和尚殿 on Pixiv

Hello #Fediverse, here's your "daily" OS-tan art!

This one is of Windows 95 OSR 2.1-tan and Windows 95 OSR 2.5-tan!

Both of these are extremely obscure characters whom have only been mentioned in a 4-Koma series which is mainly referred to as the 95OSR 2.5-tan 4Koma, due to it being the 4-panel series that the semi-canon character 95 OSR 2.5-tan debuted in and a 95 OSR 2.1-tan was mentioned by name.

OSR 2.1-tan is a sci-fi geek who is more interested in the future than the present; in fact, she brought USB compatibility to Windows, thinking it to be the way of the future. OSR 2.5-tan uses a Jutte, a sword-breaking device employed by law enforcement authorities during Japan's Edo Period. This was done to represent Microsoft Windows' transition from a tumultuous period to its era of domination and prosperity in the desktop industry, which began with Windows 98.

Art by C-Chan

Hello #Fediverse, here's your "daily" OS-tan art!

This one is a group picture featuring FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD and OpenBSD!

I won't describe all the characters due to the word limit here but FreeBSD-tan, the second eldest of the BSD-tans, is a dynamic leader known for her spontaneity and love of adventure. Despite her laid-back demeanor, she completes tasks efficiently and on time. NetBSD-tan, her younger sister, is depicted as timid but with an adventurous side, reflecting the portability of NetBSD. FreeBSD-tan is depicted as a tall woman with blonde spiky hair and purple eyes, wearing punk-inspired clothing. Her weapon of choice is a nightstick.

DragonflyBSD is the one only without info for her character, so that can be left up to interpretation?

Art by C-Chan

I guess it is time for me to do an #introduction here. This is an account by @SinclairSpeccy mainly for my personal worldbuilding projects due to the larger word count here and my main instance being a tech themed one. This account name is taken from my site to make things easier.

On this account you will find me posting about my main 4 worldbuilding projects which are the following:

Guardians of the School: Perhaps a bit of a generic name for this worldbuilding project, it focuses on the real world with a hint of fiction about a protagonist named Yuriko who is a teenage girl whose life changes when she gets thrown into turmoil by some mystical entities called "Guardians of the School".

Time Goes By: More of a space themed thing inspired by a flash game I used to play a lot in my youth called Plazma Burst 2. Same as Guardians of the School, it focuses on the real world with a hint of fiction about a protagonist named Quiv who is stuck on Earth after most people left to Mars the rest of the galaxy until he gets into a fight with someone in an abandoned spaceship that launches him and this other person into space. Yes, it sort of takes cues from Star Wars and such.

Termination of Dusk: Originally known as "Warrior Dragons", it is one of the first of my projects I started when I was younger from around 2017. Has mostly been sitting in the dust as I grew out of it. Years later I sorta picked up on it again but not much. It focuses on a fantasy setting with elemental powers.

The Mainframe - An OS-tan Fanon: My OS-tan fanon/universe that used to be hosted elsewhere that was then moved over to be hosted on my site for more flexibility. It is a fanon that aims to be free of glurge while including more male characters and redundant OSes/computers. Shares the same name as the main site (how creative of me :P).

I'll most likely be posting about my OS-tan universe since that is the one I am hyper-fixating on 99% of the time. I'm not much of an artist either but rather a writer of sorts, and these are projects done for fun. I am also to do an introduction for my OS-tan universe later to move it over to this account from my main which ended up being a 10 post thread...

The profile picture and banner will be changed eventually to suit this account more as these were ones I already had at the time on hand