Description
Firmware for a household assistant sold for home use from 1999, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. 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)
48268d6a43d4552e87e6659a5b24a1a86bfb7d07b2ffe744dd7c41606bc77001- Last verified
- Oct 18, 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: Marlin Robotics, Marlin household assistant: firmware 3.8 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05370.