500 Mile Email

500 Mile Email is a curated list of absurd software bug stories and weekly newsletter. It's maintained by me, Harley Hicks, and is named after one of my favorite stories, "We can't send mail more than 500 miles". Know a great story? Send it my way.


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A Story About 'Magic'

The story of the mysterious magic switch on the side of the MIT AI Lab PDP-10.

By Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. on February 19, 1979

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