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"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here..."
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
I love these stories! There's also,
And now that I've gone searching for these I see that they've all been helpfully collected on http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html
Those are great stories, thanks for sharing!
http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html
Apparently, back in the days when a hard drive was the size of a clothes dryer, some enterprising engineering students would hack the device drivers so they could make the thing gradually scoot itself across the room using nothing but well-timed drive head thrashing.
That's awesome. What a student thing to do, as well!