Dinosaur In the [1]hacker jargon dinosaur is a type of a big, very old, mostly non-interactive ([2]batch), possibly partly mechanical computer, usually an IBM [3]mainframe from 1940s and 1950s (so called Stone Age). They resided in dinosaur pens (mainframe rooms). { This is how I understood it from the [4]Jargon File. ~drummyfish } Links: 1. hacker.md 2. batch.md 3. mainframe.md 4. jargon_file.md