Description
Control firmware for a drum machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
278c456fbfe58d778e8bcc9ae62ba288ca43d239420b0daa77b0d4d72551bbc3- Last verified
- Sep 29, 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: Tessel Controls, Tessel drum machine controller, model RH-880 (2015). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25685.