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# Dinosaur
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In the [hacker](hacker.md) jargon *dinosaur* is a type of a big, very old, mostly non-interactive ([batch](batch.md)), possibly partly mechanical computer, usually an IBM [mainframe](mainframe.md) from 1940s and 1950s (so called Stone Age). They resided in *dinosaur pens* (mainframe rooms).
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{ This is how I understood it from the [Jargon File](jargon_file.md). ~drummyfish } |