Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Friends of Silverfield Springs History, which had held it unread for years. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
aa12072fb600cea8bff25ec7d967f1a051e70e5fcb9a905d720d5bda3be9c254- Last verified
- Sep 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: Pebble Instruments, Pebble telescope mount controller, model BN-350 (2012). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24790.