Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!munck@Mitre-Bedford From: munck%Mitre-Bedford@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Robotic Can Opener Message-ID: <299@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 11:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.299 Posted: Sun Jul 22 11:45:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 19:41:35 EDT Lines: 9 I have fond but very vague memories of a series of stories from a couple of decades ago, about an inventor who did his best work while drunk and the robot he invented while in said state, whose primary purpose was to be a beer-can opener. The inventor's name may have been Gallagher and the robot's Joe; I do remember that beer cans had just been replaced by "plasti-bulbs," rendering the robot obsolete as well as silly. Can anyone give me a pointer to these stories? Thanks. -- Bob Munck (MUNCK@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA)