Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2011. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1a96422ae34758a853baff587be1f23df03cea5bea14987e8a5f898d48c501a5- Last verified
- Oct 12, 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: Jetty Instruments, Jetty telescope mount controller, model AG-170 (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14498.