Description
Control firmware for a pager, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fbb4523d689a5de866257a573b2aac421b47f2d0807bc729524039cbb23b497e- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Vector Appliances, Vector pager controller, model BD-780 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25801.