{"id":10034,"date":"2016-12-10T08:59:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2016-12-10T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:59:42","slug":"straight-out-of-the-hobbit-if-smaug-was-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/straight-out-of-the-hobbit-if-smaug-was-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"straight out of the hobbit, if smaug was a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

As per yesterday’s post, I’ve been doing a lot of new year’s cleanup\/clean-out<\/eM>, and that includes old computer gear. And that lead to a series of events with my old AmigaUUCP Usenet site, lorbit.UUCP, as hosted on the very-heavily-modified homemade-tower-case Amiga 500, smaug.<\/p>\n

These series of events loosely follow the arc of the machine’s namesake, Smaug, the dragon, in The Hobbit<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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smaug.lorbit.uucp, the ancient chiefest and greatest of calamities… awakens. pic.twitter.com\/ivnBwE64VC<\/a><\/p>\n

— solarbirdy (@solarbirdy) December 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n