Description
Firmware for a pool robot sold for home use from 2016, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Oakcrest Harbour Museum of Computing, which had held it unread for years. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f4b26db449532eed802ed4bf2c3592b96ed822dc2ee420f79fa24c05e058f2fc- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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.
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: Gannet Robotics, Gannet pool robot: firmware 4.9 (2016). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36542.