Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Hazeldale Museum of Computing, which had held it unread for years. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. About 81 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b48b556ff5b97aec669c482cb990dc0c5bec5f203618601e390eba840933834b- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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: Mosaic Appliances, Mosaic loom controller, model ZX-360 (1975). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04107.