Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 2000, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Granite Heritage Collection, which had held it unread for years. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4485152711f5a8ab73700af4f0a6f9c196a6e647a5c4d9e1805830156d49d5bc- 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 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: Osprey Robotics, Osprey lawn robot: firmware 3.8 (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39945.