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Iron Age
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n. In the history of computing, 1961-1971 the formative era of commercial
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mainframe technology, when ferrite-core dinosaurs ruled the earth. The Iron
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Age began, ironically enough, with the delivery of the first minicomputer
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(the PDP-1) and ended with the introduction of the first commercial
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microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also Stone Age ; compare elder
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days.
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