steam-powered adj.
Old-fashioned or underpowered; archaic. This term does not have a strong negative loading and may even be used semi-affectionately for something that clanks and wheezes a lot but hangs in there doing the job.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.
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