Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric dog, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. All files were recovered; 55 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9a58b8a8e76fb46bc5b5c4a55da54b89cba066c8e09e1e0271e66bc6eaae2801- Last verified
- Oct 16, 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: Kestrel Companion Animals, Electric dog, model EL-920: firmware (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12904.