Description
Firmware for an electric parrot, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. About 67 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c5c27feed218fbefaa1002858c4178b78f55e7294d830671c4796b8c14738e7a- Last verified
- Sep 6, 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: Swift Companion Animals, Electric parrot, model XM-720: firmware (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09467.