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multician.bsky.social
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@multician.bsky.social
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I draw personifications of old computers :)

(she/her, adult)
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multician.bsky.social
Vintage computer yuri!! Featuring 95-tan, 2K-tan, XP-tan and more. (Full IDs in alt)

#os-tan #gijinka #personification
Collection of watercolor style sketches depicting various OS-tan pairings. From top left: Windows 95-tan, depicted as a pale skinned woman with red-brown hair, a pink yukata, and Windows logo-colored hair bow, leans close to kiss Mac System 9-tan, depicted as a lightly tanned woman with blonde hair, a white dress, and 9-shaped hairclip. The generic MacOS-tan, depicted as a pale woman with platinum blonde hair, rainbow apple on her head, and white bodysuit teases Windows 2000-tan, depicted as a light skinned woman with blue hair, a maid's frill, Windows logo themed bodysuit and blue overcoat. Tandy Color Computer-tan, depicted as a woman with medium skintone, dark brown hair, black tube-top and blue jeans, sits on the lap of Commodore Amiga-tan, a woman with light skin, red hair, blue beret, red checker pattern shirt and blue shorts. Both are smiling. Windows XP-tan, depicted as a chubby, pale woman with black hair, XP hairclip, and white and blue blouse and skirt lays face-to-face across Mac OS X Panther-tan, a woman with dark skin, black hair, black cat ears with fluffy hairs, blue dress and black opera gloves. Windows 95-tan (same description as above, except with glasses) links hands with and kisses Windows NT-tan, a woman with light tan skin and light purple hair, a blue dress, and yellow bow.
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
multician.bsky.social
Another old thing (2014) featuring a bunch of my (then partner, now) spouse's Control Data Corporation OS personifications. And special guests. IDs in the alt-text.

#os-tan #personification #computeroc #gijinka
From left to right: VSOS-tan (SCOPE and LTSS-tan's oldest daughter, depicted as a young, light skinned woman with short brown hair in a yellow two-piece. She's standing in the pool.) SCOPE-tan (matriarch of the CDC family. depicted as a mature woman with long, curly, multicolored hair and patchwork, sewn-together skin. She wears sunglasses and a red bikini. She's dangling her legs into the pool. She's toasting LTSS-tan with a drink. VSOS-tan holds onto her.) eOS-tan (SCOPE and LTSS-tan's younger daughter, depicted as a girl in a pink blouse and brown shorts. She has curly hair like SCOPE, light skin and glasses. She's sitting by the pool eating an ice cream cone.) LTSS-tan (mad scientist and friends-with-experiments to SCOPE, depicted as a mature woman in a blue dress & sunhat. She has light skin and brown hair. She's lounging and toasting SCOPE-tan with a drink.) NLTSS-tan & CrTSS-tan (LTSS-tan's children. NLTSS-tan has a similar color scheme to LTSS-tan and lounges against her, while CrTSS-tan, who has blue hair and a labcoat, eats a sandwich.) And in the background, KRONOS-kun (depicted as a thin, pale man with light hair) picnics with MTS-tan (a fat blonde woman in a pink sundress). Elsewhere, CDC NOS-tan (a girl in a purple dress and sunhat) is tormented by Cray 1-tan's (a heavyset woman who's producing snowfall from her hands) powers.
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
multician.bsky.social
Progress on my ongoing 20th Anniversary OS-tan project... drawing every character, one per day, until March 2027!

Started with ME, XP, 2K& 95-tan and expanded from there. I can't list everyone here, but if you want someone ID'd point them out.

#os-tan #gijinka #personification
A long image depicting a pen-and-ink style drawing of various OS-tan characters. A closeup crop of the previous image, depicting primarily Windows OS-tans. From front row to back, left to right: Windows 2.0, MS DOS, 3.0, ME, 98 & 98 SE, and 3.2; 1.0, XP Home, XP Pro, 2000, 95, CE, and 95 OSR 2.5; 8, XP MCE, NT, Inu-T, Vista, 7, and 10; Linux XP, Sever 2008, Neptune, Odyssey, 95 OSR 2.1, and Linspire.
October 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
multician.bsky.social
Old work (2013). GNU/Linux-tan and Research Unix-tan. #os-tan #gijinka #personification #computeroc
A woman with long hair lit in dramatic blue, green and purple lighting. She wears a futuristic, military-style coat, short skirt, leggings and tall boots. She holds a halberd in one hand and licks of purple energy in the other. She has horns formed from "hard light" in the form of gnu horns, and a blue energy shield. A woman with long hair, owl ears and glasses lit in dramatic blue and orange lighting. She wears a knee length black dress, combat boots, and holds a staff carved with roman numerals, while generating blue flame from the other hand. Orange flames smoulder around her feet.
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
multician.bsky.social
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
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
multician.bsky.social
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"
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
multician.bsky.social
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.
October 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
multician.bsky.social
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.
October 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
multician.bsky.social
@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.
September 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
multician.bsky.social
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.
September 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
multician.bsky.social
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.
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
multician.bsky.social
First post! My name is Bells & I make personifications of historic computers, esp. 1940s - 70s. Been at this for awhile (~15 years) now and I'm resigned to this being my life.

A throwback with an old piece of mine (2015) and a new piece (2025). Descriptions in alt. #os-tan #gijinka #computeroc
A group of women sit in a conversation pit. They are the anthropomorphic representations of Michigan Terminal System (depicted as a heavyset blonde woman in a red dress), IBM System/360 (dark haired woman in a blue shirt and skirt), DOS/ES (a soviet clone of IBM DOS/360, depicted as a gray haired woman in overalls and a red bandana) and OS/ES (a soviet clone of OS/360, depicted as a dark haired woman in a yellow dress). The room is done up in 1970s style, with orange wallpaper, yellow shag carpet and a blue beaded curtain. In the background hangs an old family portrait and an IBM-style text terminal. The women are eating candies, talking and listening to music on a record player. Anthropomorphic depictions of the IAS Machine and Whirlwind I computers. IAS-tan is depicted as a white haired, heavyset woman in a gray suit, green hat and green plaid overcoat hung over her shoulder. Whirlwind-tan is depicted as a thin, black haired, bespectacled woman in white and checkered print dress. They are depicted in a flat, cartoonish midcentury art style. The background is light yellow and has stylized depictions of Williams tubes and vacuum tubes.
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM