Description
Control firmware for a drum machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All files were recovered; 10 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
549909c4bf8860abd42c6c8056fa406c4728e44fec0dc1696bc800aafeb2a884- Last verified
- Oct 13, 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: Whimbrel Instruments, Whimbrel drum machine controller, model FR-500 (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02559.