Description
Firmware for an electric canary, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2013. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. About 60 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7b9dbdee26550614a94589669140fe4a564999a96e72509341578c70c73e0dfc- Last verified
- Oct 27, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Mosaic Companion Animals, Electric canary, model KD-160: firmware (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18367.