Description
Control firmware for a tram ticket machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0c015d7922cba6b9c9284e6571b7e880150a10b2c8c76457a65382663056fe8b- Last verified
- Oct 11, 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: Cobalt Appliances, Cobalt tram ticket machine controller, model HM-970 (2009). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22884.