Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric dog, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. 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)
fd9ae57f4d7ae7daaf4d1087193359c97942e6d2e0eb82198f2afa4e6b9c4957- Last verified
- Oct 4, 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: Northwind Companion Animals, Electric dog, model BG-890: firmware (2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17081.