Description
Firmware for an electric parrot, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Deposited by Lowland Software Preservation Group, from its own collections. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
dd31c33f7f1b10e825c661938868b9ac8398c785bbbc2d2b28255c19650fd4d2- Last verified
- Sep 28, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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 parrot, model GX-620: firmware (2010). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23825.