Description
Control firmware for a pinball machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Harthaven. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All files were recovered; 5 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7ce706ce33907aea46e972f8d76df0e01e0085b7f7b315e5dd586fd03fdffa86- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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.
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: Ferro Instruments, Ferro pinball machine controller, model JV-840 (2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16419.