Description
Firmware for an electric tortoise, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Deposited by North Fairmont Museum of Computing, which had held it unread for years. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3b5afdc495900a62219c73f13f121fe37e2c89581ffcab234ee0be06cd3696e3- Last verified
- Oct 12, 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.
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: Relay Companion Animals, Electric tortoise, model EX-760: firmware (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08895.