Description
Control firmware for a pipe organ, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
147d50cb977b2180ddcaf3d7041ec6c6ac89b40c33f7b9288de8cab3692a6295- Last verified
- Oct 28, 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: Basalt Electronics, Basalt pipe organ controller, model KM-540 (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13017.