Description
Control firmware for a tram ticket machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Rebuilt from 5 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c6714bb53d75ede969160bb12c5e9af5ba7300d82f2fad722807f4f161e1be68- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Corvid Controls, Corvid tram ticket machine controller, model DK-780 (1978). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04288.