Description
Control firmware for an answering 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. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4c87dc1460bba0c25703bbf3817cfb17b614a96c1392a3311a2c70846f02e37e- Last verified
- Oct 1, 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 Appliances, Onyx answering machine controller, model FT-50 (2007). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21707.