Description
Firmware for an electric tortoise, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Willowridge. 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)
57efcb67fd6ed92ce8fea18f894d6e31490ed12597ccf87df0d1ed096bdab43f- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Aster Companion Animals, Electric tortoise, model VN-280: firmware (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06087.