Description
Control firmware for a sewing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Western Ranges Software Preservation Group. Contacts were cleaned before reading. About 79 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d971f019c1d340dd9c09f0b327954b253663a985f1f1da5a935d377ba6da041d- 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 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: Gyre Instruments, Gyre sewing machine controller, model NH-640 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04880.