Description
Control firmware for an answering machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Saltwater Falls Design Museum in 2005. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
40d7fcf39e908e59b7698c43209fb2dae1282e7103eb9248748d7533ebf996bd- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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: Osprey Instruments, Osprey answering machine controller, model MV-670 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08757.