Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Highland Retro Computing Society. Contacts were cleaned before reading. About 79 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
39fcfcb15806ea37f951b16489c2e617fd5420a2f4392d29ff6ea201d301567d- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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: Kestrel Appliances, Kestrel loom controller, model JA-840 (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15129.