Description
Control firmware for a lathe, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b71b0ad1dd4007e509389007e5615789cdda94c211a9edbced38d8ecd5595f5a- Last verified
- Oct 2, 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: Inlet Instruments, Inlet lathe controller, model BV-560 (2009). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12169.