Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 1996, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. About 66 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1991eafdea3c0b26f1d70730b6a465056cbf5295ba59c32089e41d05bab7bab5- Last verified
- Oct 28, 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: Sable Robotics, Sable lawn robot: firmware 2.1 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24030.