Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric canary, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
994cded1793b224120ba9a6b4aebd38814029d95365b1b4ace27c3d7712c624c- Last verified
- Oct 1, 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: Linden Companion Animals, Electric canary, model TC-840: firmware (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28850.