Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. 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)
26f08e76fe174c73c7da4a825f7ee460a467291c0250c4826d8151a041a472e8- Last verified
- Sep 11, 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: Sable Instruments, Sable telescope mount controller, model LV-400 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04752.