Description
Control firmware for a synthesizer, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by North Redcrest Municipal Archives in 1999. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All files were recovered; 54 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c7b9d3cf46f601601a4de5d460c4d29e6ba5458f139a65feba74732b9d6c32c6- Last verified
- Sep 20, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-EMBED-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-EMBED-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on an embedded controller.
Cite as: Onyx Controls, Onyx synthesizer controller, model EX-670 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02429.