Description
Control firmware for a sewing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Eastworth Bay Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cf1c2a8bfaa14f3216fb3624be2b158c1d7b997873d2890073a099e64431ea86- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Ferro Electronics, Ferro sewing machine controller, model TL-190 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06647.