Description
Firmware for an electric canary, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Deposited by Vector Corporate Archive, from its own collections. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. About 91 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9a96838491226b4287dfe2e3b2c43bf4d296323f1948a3975cd879b2dab48001- Last verified
- Sep 25, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Vantage Companion Animals, Electric canary, model CF-720: firmware (2018). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30131.