Description
Firmware for a floor-cleaning robot sold for home use from 1998, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Harbour Region Arcade Preservation Society, which had held it unread for years. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c5d31dee7f708cdbd69b99b4630016b3f3ab2c615701de6e234ffb68fa9f1d7a- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-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-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Vantage Robotics, Vantage floor-cleaning robot: firmware 5.1 (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31033.