Description
Control firmware for a sewing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Goldmere. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
29624adee99601d8bede6f1fc0b64a27edd5516dbe0e2d63a1f79ff547756451- Last verified
- Oct 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: Cobalt Electronics, Cobalt sewing machine controller, model XZ-370 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23580.