Description
Control firmware for a boiler, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Aldermore Falls and passed to Lazarus. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1eb0ebf1ce064204419e08c58c04e4d9598956e5f769537bee5a1c486f9b37a8- Last verified
- Sep 28, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Helix Electronics, Helix boiler controller, model LL-800 (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02765.