Description
Firmware for an electric canary, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a72b1e1ddfa1836e626909aac59083c9e0a3e9c8dc7bdf34e9406b4714bf00e1- Last verified
- Oct 14, 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: Swift Companion Animals, Electric canary, model DE-320: firmware (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19833.