Description
Control firmware for a pager, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Wolffield Community Archive, from its own collections. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All files were recovered; 17 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
04f26449de3bd62780687f1e9aa0e2abc6be8af97aabb8c54baf5116e9b83095- Last verified
- Sep 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 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: Egret Electronics, Egret pager controller, model DH-600 (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10644.