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• ired iron n. [IBM] Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new produc
  presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a dinosaur....
• dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
  Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
• usty iron: n. Syn. {tired iron}. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of {water MIPS}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• enior bit: [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers).
  Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}....
• ed wire: [IBM] n. Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a {softy} with a soldering iron....
• etrocomputing: /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for {hack value}, of more `serious' designs....
• ofty: [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....