Big iron
<jargon> (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers.
Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes.
The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
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