Dr. Otto Matic, I Presume

Dr. Otto Matic, I PresumeLast Spring, a friend of mine handed me part of a computer print-out and told me, "It's off a machine in California that uses a program called Dr. Otto Matic--get it?--and when you run it, the computer talks back, to you as if it were a psychiatrist. Isn't that a trip?"The exchange between the unnamed human and the machine was printed in that all-cap teletype style and the computer had evidently started the conversation. It read:Good Day. I am Dr. Otto Matic. S...