Description
Firmware for a pool robot sold for home use from 1999, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
98cb0e50947d711c5a3764e45d84acc11ccb87ce1393bb16791bb610509e3dea- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Orchid Robotics, Orchid pool robot: firmware 3.7 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04616.