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The Flip Side: The Good Old Days

Its fun to make fun of legacy systems. Just calling them big iron is mocking themiron smacks of heavy, ancient, and rusty. Words like ironclad, ...

By Staff Writer | Updated on April 30, 2002

Its fun to make fun of legacy systems. Just calling them big iron is mocking themiron smacks of heavy, ancient, and rusty. Words like ironclad, iron lung, and Old Ironsides come to mindnot to mention Raymond Burr.

But computers are one of the few things people complain about getting older. Some other appliances get bragged about. My friend Toms parents use a couple of 60-year-old Electrolux vacuums that work as well today as when they were new. They sucked in 1943, and they suck now, he likes to say.

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