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With the way tech has inserted itself into our day-to-day lives, it has become nearly impossible to be a consumer of culture without being plugged into the mainframe.

From Salon

He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.

From BBC

He was among a handful of influential engineers whose designs formed the vital bridge between the room-size models of the mainframe era and the advent of the personal computer.

Despite Mother’s “get out of jail free” card, she was still determined to climb the wall and hack into the company’s mainframe.

He took courses, learned code and even devoted time to using an IBM mainframe computer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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