Description
Control firmware for a cash register, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2011. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
792a3cfc4717937332f446ac595b1bd7b5982f3076b76c3d9e6b50648a0aa1b6- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Orchid Appliances, Orchid cash register controller, model LB-980 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12624.