Reg > wrote in news:TIlJc.220$vN1.125
@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com:

> The CPU clock speed was measured in cycles per year. And
> it was all powered by a goat on a big treadmill.

Mine used giant space hamsters. They were also used for their meat. It was
shortened to sp-ham and then to just spam.

(Blatantly stolen from the AD&D Spelljammer add-on, in which the space
hamster treadmills powered the gnomes' 'jammers.)