Description
Control firmware for a washing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. About 65 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
01499d8d99c77dbca447e8038cad7103670bb5b9bd9b90fd15fe6cd1d91dfe75- Last verified
- Oct 12, 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: Helix Controls, Helix washing machine controller, model MK-260 (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17535.