Description
Control firmware for a washing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Redcombe Bay Computer Heritage Centre, from its own collections. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d81d18c2bbdc387d57e0c58c8324291e710ffe68211ab7a24d658d579dd31ba3- 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: Onyx Electronics, Onyx washing machine controller, model EL-860 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20678.