Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric parrot, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2010. Contacts were cleaned before reading. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
339f6ed7bb6f21389de5dfb9d4389d9497c34faddd7e0ac27900e4f9b067a977- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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: Aster Companion Animals, Electric parrot, model JN-780: firmware (2006). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14053.