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.
Although they may not actively tout the age of the things they use, most people are perfectly happy with old technology except when it comes to computers.
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