Description
Firmware for a floor-cleaning robot sold for home use from 1999, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Oxenfurt University Library in 2004. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
195cb44ffc21666668a486a57ba63012fbb678875ac416094ac7b6f7a3ad25c1- Last verified
- Sep 1, 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.
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: Tandem Robotics, Tandem floor-cleaning robot: firmware 1.3 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05458.