Description
Control firmware for a drum machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Rockwater Falls and passed to Lazarus. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
38e9eac9e134567ef2a26708d7f44d2ec0b448bc41ad50074be817be23cdb0bd- Last verified
- Oct 5, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Cobalt Controls, Cobalt drum machine controller, model DP-590 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10794.