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CJ Joughin @cjjoughin.bsky.social · 1d

Finally up on my Etsy store! Cute little ghosts in retro tech shaker charms, just in time for the spooky season. www.etsy.com/shop/Cyberpi...

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しおん 🌱 EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS OPEN @sionique.bsky.social · 4d

recently i figured out how to setup an oekaki board on my website!! heres art of 2k i made @ my oekaki 💙
come and join HERE ----> sion.leprd.space/bbs/

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teku-a-fool.bsky.social @teku-a-fool.bsky.social · 3d

You can do it, YellowJacket! #oc #art

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · 5d

SAGE-tan x IBM 728-tan.

I think lesbianism could've saved IBM 728....

#os-tan #personification #gijinka #computeroc #yuri

Left: The personification of the IBM 728 tape drive, depicted here as a light skinned woman with short silver hair and gray eyes, leans in to kiss SAGE-tan, depicted as a light skinned woman with brown hair in buns. Both wear 1960s dress blue USAF uniforms.

Right: SAGE-tan straddles IBM 728-tan's lap while unbuttoning her shirt

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · 5d

Safe travels!

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · 13d

More OS-tan / computer-tan sillies! (IDs in alt text)

#os-tan #gijinka #personification #computeroc

Clockwise from top left: SAGE-tan reuniting with a number of her lost friends/family. She sits circled around a table with Apple ///-tan, Multics-tan, Whirlwind-tan, CTSS-tan and GENIAC-tan. They all look happy, with Multics-tan kissing SAGE-tan on the cheek and Whirlwind-tan embracing her. Above, text reads "never kill yourself".

SAGE-tan recreating the "I am no longer mentally ill" meme.

SAGE-tan and Whirlwind-tan embracing.

SAGE-tan provoking Unix-tan into hitting her over the head with her staff.

IAS-tan, ORDVAC-tan and WWMCCS-tan in the "brothers" meme. They introduce themselves, the lower text reading "The DMV siblings".

"Go, do a crime" with Whirlwind-tan passing her lightgun onto young SAGE-tan.

PDP-1 and FASTRAND-kun teaming up to annoy SAGE-tan. Finally she can't take it anymore and throws him through a wall, surprising IBM 728-kun.

SAGE-tan in a number of Neil Breen movie parody sketches, featuring FASTRAND-kun in the "is it really possible for a ___ boy and a ___ girl to be in a relationship" meme. It reads "is it really possible for an IBM computer and a univac drum drive to be in a relationship"

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · 14d

Marylanders~ :3

Just an excuse to draw the ballistics research lab ladies at the shore. (IDs in alt text)

#os-tan #gijinka #computeroc #personification

Text reading "Greetings from Maryland" over a page of color sketches personifying various MD computer systems.

From top left, clockwise: EDVAC-tan, depicted as a woman with medium skintone, in a black bikini and sunhat, lounging on the beach.

ENIAC-tan (who looks similar to EDVAC-tan, but with a red two piece bathing suit and wider brimmed, veiled hat) and EDVAC-tan talking with each other.

EDVAC-tan looking mischievous as she buries a sleeping ORDVAC-tan in sand. ORDVAC-tan wakes and yells at EDVAC, but she's already gone.

ORDVAC-tan, depicted as a pale skinned woman with orange hair, in a Maryland flag print bikini and various bandages.

NAREC-tan, depicted as a pale woman with blue hair, a yellow swimsuit and bucket full of blue crabs, walks with SEAC-tan, depicted as a tanned woman with graying black hair, a white beret, green swimsuit, and cybernetic eye behind glasses. She has a faint green glow.

ENIAC-tan cautiously approaches the water as one of her servants holds her power cabling.

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Robin @robinwaaaaa.bsky.social · Jun 17

Human AU

A lineup of 4 human versions of my spacecraft gijinkas. WRESAT is a man in a lab coat and Australian air force hat named Wesley Barnsley, DFH-1 is a woman wearing a satchel and Chinese red army cap with a harmonica hung around her neck named Fanghong Qian, Explorer-1 is a tall older man in a pinstripe suit named Jamison Pickering Van Allen, and San Marco is a priest in a life vest named Marco Broglio.

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Axe-Assassin Abelson @soasosu.bsky.social · May 10

HST35 updates

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sbarky @sbarky.bsky.social · 23d

My Weather Satellite is Too Cute!
Even if Her Instruments are Outdated 🛰️

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · 15d

Love the coloring style :o

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しおん 🌱 EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS OPEN @sionique.bsky.social · 15d

tsukimi #art #clipstudio #ostan

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teku-a-fool.bsky.social @teku-a-fool.bsky.social · 16d

i dunno, they looked similar to me. ( ´･ω･)

Yuugumo (kancolle) and ME-tan staring at each other and waving their ahoge.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 17d

I booted up windows 98 to defrag my BADAPPLE drive

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teku-a-fool.bsky.social @teku-a-fool.bsky.social · 18d

some Mac tans~ #os-tan. one goes 🎵 and the other goes 💣

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しおん 🌱 EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS OPEN @sionique.bsky.social · 29d

yeah youve seen os tans and console tans but hey what about processor tans

#art #clipstudio #moe #ostan

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · 19d

Assorted OS-tan / computer-tan sillies. A lot of these come from convos & jokes with friends. (IDs in alt text)

#os-tan #gijinka #computeroc

Clockwise, starting at left: young Whirlwind-tan in sukeban attire; IBM DOS/360-tan and OS/2-tan in MBTA uniforms; Selectric-kun & OS X Leopard-tan in a Half-Life parody; BBN TSS-tan, FASTRAND-kun & Tenex-tan "family" portrait; SAGE-tan releasing her scarab (F-106)

Clockwise, starting at top left: ENIAC-tan x random tumblr shitpost, featuring FASTRAND-kun & SAGE-tan; ENIAC-tan confronting IAS-tan about her many children; Whirlwind-tan & SAGE-tan cameo; ENIAC-tan as Mint Fantome, and IAS-tan and a bunch of random IASlings.

Clockwise, starting at top left: SAGE-tan under an Amiga pile; Amiga-tan on skates; SAGE-IBM 728-FASTRAND co-op kabedon; meme Unix-tan; FWMC SAGE & Multics-tan.

Clockwise, starting at top left: Xinia / foxgirl Linux-tan; mod style CDC SCOPE-tan; Multics and MTS-tan drinking games; VMS-tan and Unix-tan.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · Sep 17

Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
↓
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · Sep 17

Original: www.tumblr.com/bloopychips/...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 5 · The silliest picture of Edvac I've ever seen.

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · Sep 17

@bloopychips.bsky.social 's EDVAC (original pic in comments)

I am enchanted by this tragic computer!
#mainframemen #personification #gijinka

A paint-over of a character against a grainy, black & white vintage photo. Depicted as a young man with light skin tone, round glasses, and dark hair streaked with white, the personification of EDVAC peeks out from behind an open panel in the EDVAC computer.

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some more early generation computer personifications: EDVAC, EDSAC, and Manchester Baby/Mark I (rolled into one personification).

Design notes on the page, and further description in alt. #os-tan #gijinka #computeroc

The personification of the EDVAC computer, represented as a woman with short, curly silver hair, in a black 1940s-era outfit, with a veiled hat and yellow neck-bow. She carries a variety of leather pouches and a long cigarette. Additional sketches show her appearance in relation to her "mother" ENIAC-tan and half-sister IAS-tan, and her wearing a Women's Army Corp uniform.

Personifications of the EDSAC and Manchester Mark I computers.

EDSAC-tan is depicted as a young woman in a red sweater and gray plaid skirt, carrying a wooden box on her back. She has gray and red hair, round red glasses, and green eyes, representing the oscilloscope displays of the computer. She has multicolored ribbons in her hair and slightly frayed clothing, representing the exposed wiring of the machine.

Manchester Mark I-tan is a tall woman with white hair, a labcoat-like dress, a red scarf and shoes. Her eyes are black with a grid of glowing green dots, representing the visualization of the Williams Tube memory used by the computer. Another sketch shows her younger self, the Manchester Baby, a girl in an oversized labcoat, braids, and a gray and pink blouse and skirt.

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · Sep 11

ENIAC-tan concept and finished design. I'm happy that I finally settled on a personification I like a decade and half after my first try. #os-tan #gijinka #computeroc

Additional character info: www.tumblr.com/multician/78...

The personification of the ENIAC computer, depicted as a woman in a veiled hat, rolled hair, and long dark robes. Additional sketches depict her as having a jointed doll-style body.

A description reads:
JOINTED DOLL BODY
-Swapping/rewiring Parts

VISUAL CUES
-40's womens wear
-Nun habits
-Quaker attire

LOTS OF BUTTONS/PANELS - EASE OF ACCESS FOR PARTS REPAIR/SWAPPING

WEARS VARIETY OF COUNTING DEVICES

USUALLY HAS RANGE TABLES WITH HER

The personification of the ENIAC computer, depicted in a turn-around as a woman in a veiled hat, rolled hair, and long black robes. Additional sketches show her interacting with her operators, her doll or automaton-like body with a variety of wires and sockets, the Women's Army Corp uniform that she wore on-duty, and a closeup of her face.

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KAZ ☆ @ MCM London K-12 @nxcromantik.bsky.social · May 29

trouble windows
[ #ostan #art]

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Bells @multician.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you! ^^

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