Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Larkmont Springs Community Archive in 2003. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
eb4279e034c2ba4bf3c6c3ff4cab1ce029928755564d65d3379266c68184b5ff- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Atlas Instruments, Atlas telescope mount controller, model PL-390 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04289.