Put'er there, pardner, Jason Lantz's smile suggests he would welcome a robotic buddy - who can talk, as well as vaccum a guy's bedroom and keep watch (...)

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Put'er there, pardner, Jason Lantz's smile suggests he would welcome a robotic buddy - who can talk, as well as vaccum a guy's bedroom and keep watch (...)

Date5/10/1984

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Slaughter, Mike (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Put'er there; pardner; Jason Lantz's smile suggests he would welcome a robotic buddy - who can talk; as well as vaccum a guy's bedroom and keep watch against things that go bump in the night by maintaining a security system. The 11-year-old from Hamilton met the Tot invented by Gerome Hamlin of New York at The Computer Fair in the International Centre. The show continues today and tomorrow.

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