Description
Control firmware for a pager, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cde557d180031a0c0e305fc90da1d7bb4d218e273adc000c41ab1f542f930744- Last verified
- Sep 23, 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: Pylon Controls, Pylon pager controller, model ZJ-600 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22685.