Description
Firmware for a pool robot sold for home use from 1999, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Raven Heritage Collection in 2023. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. About 90 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e6f349b81e9db619a513a3bb36a613db42b29f4604dbc50916b2a371813c4a19- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Tandem Robotics, Tandem pool robot: firmware 5.0 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37385.