Description
Firmware for an electric ostrich, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Deposited by Karst Heritage Collection, from its own collections. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7ed618518ba19cc9f094041db1574b66ccfa33bda09eb1bba88508559a3ecf68- Last verified
- Oct 21, 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: Calder Companion Animals, Electric ostrich, model ED-430: firmware (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09142.