Lazarus Archive · LZ-15930

Fathom pipe organ controller, model FP-860

Fathom Controls, 1982. Firmware for an embedded controller.

Description

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

Provenance

Deposited by TriOptimum Corporate Archive. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
12a50d1517998c3161f3c1352a205a8d1f2c4c363370923a90e951865d7712b7
Last verified
Oct 20, 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: Fathom Controls, Fathom pipe organ controller, model FP-860 (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15930.

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