Lazarus Archive · LZ-40500

Electric squirrel, model TR-900: firmware

Inlet Companion Animals, 1999. Firmware for electric companion animals.

Description

Behavior and service firmware for an electric squirrel, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8f6bcf5e9f4c0c22fbd376c345121e7f612863f895a05c887658c841427b4de7
Last verified
Sep 3, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Inlet Companion Animals, Electric squirrel, model TR-900: firmware (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40500.

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