Description
Control firmware for a washing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Westbrook Bay Demoscene Archive. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2ad3faf33fbaf3025c56ffde0acfdf564dac86027acca3895faab5fc73e0754b- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Whimbrel Instruments, Whimbrel washing machine controller, model JN-600 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08012.