Description
Control firmware for a tram ticket machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Hollyvale Bay. Contacts were cleaned before reading. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fa49946b4e1063b4529d4467262cf1e284b2f4ea768eebad3a53fd56fa14c607- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Bluebell Appliances, Bluebell tram ticket machine controller, model AH-620 (2014). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22014.