Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric cat, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Deposited by Pineworth Library and Archives in 2018. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
220f9536ca8f7f03729178eb4f8d3523c05db23984f43054118f4fa1020d7898- Last verified
- Sep 18, 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: Egret Companion Animals, Electric cat, model MG-930: firmware (2007). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24266.