Description
Firmware for a floor-cleaning robot sold for home use from 1999, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Blackleigh Bay Radio Amateurs’ Society in 2004. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
794031eab225cb0387735c7bae7e4399d0188dee2cd5fdbe5320c98ca4af4532- Last verified
- Sep 24, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Rowan Robotics, Rowan floor-cleaning robot: firmware 1.0 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07295.