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Big Blue

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Big Blue

A nickname for IBM coined from its blue and white logo and the blue covers on most of its earlier mainframes.


big blue - International Business Machines


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Middle height, slim and fair, with red goldy hair and big blue eyes; about thirty, I should say.
Often, as I still lay at the bottom and kept no more than an eye above the gunwale, I would see a big blue summit heaving close above me; yet the coracle would but bounce a little, dance as if on springs, and subside on the other side into the trough as lightly as a bird.
Still more eagerly her big blue eyes tried to look in all directions at once, that no thing of beauty or interest in this wonderful house might be passed unseen.
 
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