Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2010. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
bb21295a5f86240e365a91b65f9aabde4d64e1fe86100422df89006ca8d54a13- Last verified
- Sep 24, 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: Pioneer Controls, Pioneer telescope mount controller, model NX-340 (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14961.