Lazarus Archive · LZ-27543

Electric owl, model PF-10: firmware

Tessel Companion Animals, 2004. Firmware for electric companion animals.

Description

Firmware for an electric owl, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2019. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
28e890224ead4724b52f8be56f1dae9551ebb47cade83120f9ccfc3190f12144
Last verified
Oct 9, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Tessel Companion Animals, Electric owl, model PF-10: firmware (2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27543.

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