Description
Control firmware for a lift, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Larkcombe. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a3ebd542976518f7da07edb78c435647c18073a86226710b437250ce92b3ab4c- Last verified
- Oct 11, 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: Heron Controls, Heron lift controller, model SN-350 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17615.