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Subject: re: Robotic Can Opener
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 10:55:33 EDT
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From:  boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Jerry Boyajian)

>   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 just been replaced by "plasti-bulbs," rendering the robot obsolete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)

I believe you're thinking of the "Galloway Gallegher" stories by Henry Kuttner
(originally published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION under the pseudonym Lewis
Padgett). The only collection of those stories, ROBOTS HAVE NO TAILS, is long
out of print, but you might find a copy in a good used bookstore. You might find
some of the stories in other collections of Kuttner's, too. Give a day or so,
and I'll have a bibliography for you.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA)

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