Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot
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Midrange might, but mainframe users pay ongoing amounts to IBM for however much compute they use for the life of the machine

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