Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ec70c32e6dcf1704d43c9fedd5e25355e9bdda2672e2d3b3a1cc4b2a20ebb080- Last verified
- Oct 15, 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: Ibis Electronics, Ibis telescope mount controller, model SM-970 (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16296.