Lazarus Archive · LZ-17185

Electric canary, model BB-300: firmware

Plover Companion Animals, 2003. Firmware for electric companion animals.

Description

Behavior and service firmware for an electric canary, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
09fb894f79253aa06c1b65c2a234379deb52385216535cecd470135aa3724b46
Last verified
Oct 25, 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: Plover Companion Animals, Electric canary, model BB-300: firmware (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17185.

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