Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 1997, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7a91acd1fca2d675493ba6e4f8dd8c35389b1f5a00f10988a42af30589c740fa- Last verified
- Sep 19, 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: Gyre Robotics, Gyre lawn robot: firmware 3.3 (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07891.