Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric ostrich, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Port Dunstead. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2576eb15eb5a966bf7e40447b1c9c4395ef0eab2f4d3d0d37d8196a872941d19- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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: Whimbrel Companion Animals, Electric ostrich, model SS-500: firmware (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23821.