Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric sheep, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Deposited by Lowland Software Preservation Group, which had held it unread for years. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4e4cd75e4c9e91b8a39f653bfa6606e88e7b6462f57bc360cfaf4243acc29f7b- Last verified
- Oct 2, 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: Calder Companion Animals, Electric sheep, model LB-720: firmware (2018). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29873.