Description
Firmware for an electric parrot, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Deposited by Upper Valley Software Preservation Group in 2026. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1069a6acb2333fa72a85de7a1f86b69ac44d33c5f053075c89df1031284e7e9a- Last verified
- Sep 21, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ANIMAL-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-ANIMAL-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on electric companion animals.
Cite as: Dunlin Companion Animals, Electric parrot, model DA-170: firmware (2015). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40194.