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by newswasboring 2272 days ago
Interesting. But why were they called big iron? It doesn't seem to be in IBMs marketing material (at least I couldn't find it) and the wikipedia reference points to a 2005 vulture article where they call it the big iron[1]

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/20/ibm_mainframe_refre...