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.