Description
Firmware for a household assistant sold for home use from 1996, read from a unit retired by its owners.
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. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c53be0359a130c1bed43a9a67f89bd6ccf6e0f08da13db0856931243ce53ca16- Last verified
- Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-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-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Nimbus Robotics, Nimbus household assistant: firmware 3.9 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12094.