Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric cat, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8ab598ced0d1da4775514578931d9c88e7dbb94b268acde4eb325e50cce224ca- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Quarry Companion Animals, Electric cat, model GL-200: firmware (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14699.