Description
Firmware for a household assistant sold for home use from 1996, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2c5c419ac1b6bec2d4cd5dbaee7747375e9401080a03f3ac5394382da3fb020e- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-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-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Kelp Robotics, Kelp household assistant: firmware 3.0 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19772.