Description
Control firmware for a lathe, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Museum of Red River Industry, which had held it unread for years. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
11567803d27f61d9fbe8e40282131e37ce41d443369040aacc7d4bf077fd4ebc- Last verified
- Oct 17, 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: Lode Appliances, Lode lathe controller, model CZ-300 (1975). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06299.