Description
Control firmware for a synthesizer, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Vector Corporate Archive in 2002. 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)
0812f57683b7103a207b7834d72ebcbf46e275d99b469e880903a9f9986d61ef- Last verified
- Oct 16, 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: Pylon Controls, Pylon synthesizer controller, model RV-880 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03389.