Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 2003, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
79bccdcda9d8e86b1d8bdbf8177c4941806a5a90960515cfcd5d7b5b2b2ba856- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Ferro Robotics, Ferro lawn robot: firmware 1.5 (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12386.