Description
Control firmware for a tram ticket machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2010. Contacts were cleaned before reading. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7a9df2039765124ffcc6880525c2d94b7e24d36c948880005a8551577fd5cc6a- Last verified
- Sep 29, 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: Lode Instruments, Lode tram ticket machine controller, model KE-610 (2010). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12600.