Description
Control firmware for a washing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Only fragments could be read. They are kept because nothing else of the work survives.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7c8f7089e34289634a40abc40f0f6d789288aac0a3fc66f2fcce11f9c2f25a1a- Last verified
- Oct 6, 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: Basalt Controls, Basalt washing machine controller, model FL-400 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20776.