Description
Control firmware for a tram ticket machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Northern Lakes Arcade Preservation Society in 2014. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. About 87 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6b0bd4d08b4fd0e57758a6920813351d066ad23328af6c402d1af38e4d59f681- Last verified
- Sep 22, 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: Alcove Instruments, Alcove tram ticket machine controller, model TD-170 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21355.