Petunia represents the Commodore PET and Commodore’s later business-oriented computers such as the CBM 3000 and 4000 lines. The first of Ready Fleet’s microcomputers and served as the team’s mentor until disbandment. She is friendly, polite and has a knack for teaching and a talent for hardware repair. She was highly successful in the education and business venues, but struggled as an entertainer in the home venues.
As much as she may always try to keep up a professional demeanor, she has also has a silly side and can be easily amused.
Trish’s character concept is partly inspired by Dean from The Iron Giant, and the TRS-80’s nickname of “Trash-80”. Like with Dean had happen to him, Trish probably had others mistake her art for junk 😭
Writing about this drawing led me to draw this too; a scene from the late 1970’s of Diana and Petunia attending one of Trish’s demonstrations when Diana mistook Trish’s art for junk.
Diana didn’t know that “junk” was meant to be art, and meant well but also had kind of a haughty attitude at the time that led to clashes in personality owing to how the Apple II had a much more glamorous image and was much more expensive than the TRS-80 and the PET.
Petunia was uncomfortable with Diana’s remark since the PET was often considered the most user-friendly of the 1977 Trinity (aside from the original PET’s infamous keyboard 🙃) and she always believed in being polite and professional.
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
#Introduction
Hi! I’ve had a general account on Mastodon for 2 years now; the link is in my profile. I boost a lot about 3D modeling and webcomics there.
On my Sakurajima account is where I’ll be sharing my designs for #gijinkas or personifications based on computers and OSes, akin to the #OStan characters which I’ve been a fan of for a long time that they’re nostalgic. The header and icon I’m using now are of some of my characters.
I like many anime and manga but of them, shounen and magical girl series are the largest influences on my works.
I’m looking to meet others who share my interests and to meet more creators!