Description
Firmware for an electric ostrich, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. About 91 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cd632efd69c50fced5f7fd86365cb50df2bbc9b950cd0c40a63d167f5b98473a- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Wren Companion Animals, Electric ostrich, model NF-520: firmware (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09299.