Free NO ORDINARY ROOM by Bill Williams

Daniel had suggested another solution that would allow Jamie to be able to play the game. 
    Jamie had been worried that Daniel was going to suggest that he should hack into some company’s mainframe or even a government computer and use their free space.  He was relieved to learn that the idea didn’t involve hacking, but something called natureram.  The first part seemed reasonable enough when Daniel sent him a diagram of an interface with instructions of how to build it.  Jamie didn’t know what the components that he had found in Uncle Stanley’s treasure chest of electronics actually did, but Daniel had just told Jamie to trust him and he had seemed so confident.
    Jamie had felt a bit of a Muppet when he’d gone to Jones’s the greengrocer’s and bought a yucca plant.  He wondered if there was any connection between the plant and yuk, the word that came to mind whenever one of his aunties or his mum’s friends kissed him and left a lipstick mark on his cheek, even if he liked them.  Mr Jones had asked him if it was a present for his mum and had given Jamie a surprised look when Jamie told him that it was for himself, because he was interested in horticulture.  Mr Jones had advised him to make sure that it was regularly watered and when he’d told Jamie that some folks claimed that the yucca had secret powers, Jamie had been tempted to reply, ‘I’ll let you know if mine has.’
    Jamie carefully trailed the wire from the interface board across the desk and clipped the sensors on the leaves of the Yucca plant that was on the window sill.  As far as his mum and dad were concerned he was testing for moisture changes as part of a school project he had been assigned. His dad had been well impressed and had called Jamie, Prof, a few times since he’d told him about it.
    ‘I don’t believe I’m doing this,’ Jamie said to himself as he rebooted the machine ready to test if the Yucca plant would provide him with the extra computer memory that he needed.
    As the screen flickered during the computer’s start-up routine, Jamie expected to see a ‘gotcha’ message from, Daniel the joker, appear on the screen, but everything seemed normal. 
    ‘Wow,’ was all that Jamie could say when he clicked on System Proprieties and saw that he had 200 infineonbytes of natureram.   He wondered how many bytes were in an infineon, but guessed there would be mega, mega!
    ‘You are an absolute genius, Daniel,’ Jamie said, directing his comments at the monitor after he had loaded a file into natureram and confirmed that he was able to use the ram he had just installed.  Just to be absolutely convinced that his computer was actually using the memory supplied by the yucca plant on the window sill he disconnected one of the sensors from the plant.
    Jamie shook his head in amazement as the error message flashed onto the screen declaring that there had been a natureram malfunction.
    Jamie sent off an email to Daniel explaining the operation had been successful and that he was ready to download the game onto his machine.  Daniel had already explained that although the game required massive amounts of storage he would send it via superzip and it would probably only take 12 timeonseconds to download.  Jamie didn’t bother to ask how long a timeonsecond was because he knew it was probably trillions and trillions faster than the blink of an eye.
    By the time Jamie heard his dad’s call to summon him downstairs for his dinner he had enjoyed an ‘out of this world’ experience playing ‘Ultimate Planet Wars ’.  Daniel hadn't exaggerated when he had described its level of realism that was far beyond the fastest arcade game that he had played.  He had flicked through some of the other games and noted one that caught his attention called ‘ Virtual Movie’ .
    Jamie had been thinking about his newly installed natureram and had decided that the only explanation was that Uncle Stanley and Daniel’s granddad must have been