Lazarus Archive · LZ-04387

Electric tortoise, model DS-760: firmware

Lode Companion Animals, 1998. Firmware for electric companion animals.

Description

Behavior and service firmware for an electric tortoise, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.

Provenance

Deposited by Crowworth Heritage Trust. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
49c0244ccbf160794d8e7ca9697738646f0715cf722e51bf0769a75df84c6d72
Last verified
Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ANIMAL-2 · lz-mcu core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ANIMAL-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on electric companion animals.

Cite as: Lode Companion Animals, Electric tortoise, model DS-760: firmware (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04387.

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