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• usty iron n. Syn. tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
• heavy metal: [Cambridge] n. Syn. {big iron}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• usty memory: n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in {washing machine}s)....
• ired iron: [IBM] n. Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new produc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}....
• elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....
• heavy metal n. [Cambridge] Syn. big iron.
• etsplit: n. Syn. {netburp}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• kulker: n. Syn. {prowler}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• ilicon: n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare {iron}).
  Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...