Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Southstead. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
94890836a4caacc8ea113cea50ba3e9a537c04042bd254317c86f6feb24d185f- Last verified
- Sep 9, 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: Keystone Appliances, Keystone loom controller, model FF-180 (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05984.