Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric toad, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Port Amberstead and passed to Lazarus. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. About 81 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2f4c311032fe9d2ff682c170ce12a5bbdc55e7f9ad751d9615d28508f1f43654- Last verified
- Oct 17, 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: Egret Companion Animals, Electric toad, model CJ-950: firmware (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09907.