Description
Control firmware for a lathe, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7b1ec75945ffead3ec637d56839c064e5760d89e1017d7c83f4acfd816d6e4b5- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Bramble Appliances, Bramble lathe controller, model PP-400 (2016). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24833.