Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric canary, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2016. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
12a5c9e43efa566138c5ceca0bffed6c57e5e32142122a43d7d7c9ec49442f56- Last verified
- Oct 20, 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: Tern Companion Animals, Electric canary, model MH-840: firmware (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24442.