Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Hazeldale Museum of Computing, which had held it unread for years. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8c8733be79d7b7a329e7af17cf79e2175bf95ac2bf0b36d956749d17d72063c7- 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 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: Kelp Controls, Kelp loom controller, model HE-170 (2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16106.