Description
Control firmware for a washing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
90e420db18970bccfb181b2ab09650a8080b10728b7ea552887e7623dad1710d- Last verified
- Aug 27, 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: Osprey Appliances, Osprey washing machine controller, model HK-80 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23805.