Description
Control firmware for a drum machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
eaf1c4fd7656b4b9699c61d89c068d24f255154eceb066148f48e3a3393edc3d- Last verified
- Oct 18, 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: Verity Controls, Verity drum machine controller, model LL-440 (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04594.