THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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control of the power-plant supervisors went after them, grappling them
and hauling them down to where Anse and Jerry Rivas and Captain Nichols
could turn them off manually.

The aircar was a hopeless wreck, but its radio was still functioning.
Conn called Charley Gatworth, who called a gang under Gomez, working not
far away; they came with another car.

It took all the next day for a gang of six of them to get the place
straightened up. Neither Conn nor Gomez, who was a roboticist himself,
would trust any of the workers or the two supervisors; their experiences
out of control had rendered them unreliable. They took out their power
units and left them to be torn down and repaired later. Other robots
were brought in to replace them. When they were through, the power-unit
cartridge plant was ready for operation.

Jerry Rivas wanted to start production immediately.