Description
Firmware for an electric ostrich, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d19fbb7b5ca1d2a9e9482d22b88b98ecc4a1e062a20edbc81d75102da827ce7d- Last verified
- Sep 29, 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: Tandem Companion Animals, Electric ostrich, model LM-100: firmware (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17785.