Lazarus Archive · LZ-13871

Pylon car radio controller, model DP-410

Pylon Instruments, 2004. Firmware for an embedded controller.

Description

Control firmware for a car radio, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2011. Contacts were cleaned before reading. All files were recovered; 54 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0b7e850bac59f5fa310f95b64d4e0a5b2ae7cf2149cfed4687f6283cee2868bc
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: Pylon Instruments, Pylon car radio controller, model DP-410 (2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13871.

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