Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric duck, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8e9a06309a64a9cb4cb1aaf2b3969e1a33180f595030fa6fac8902fe3e3e359a- Last verified
- Oct 15, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Beacon Companion Animals, Electric duck, model RS-750: firmware (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07894.