Description
Firmware for a household assistant sold for home use from 1996, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9bd6a815e4e6f5de4ce062c347361dac2c29b3ebca60318201635df8c6bbb092- Last verified
- Oct 27, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Meridian Robotics, Meridian household assistant: firmware 2.8 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31352.