Description
Control firmware for a tram ticket machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Lowland Retro Computing Society, which had held it unread for years. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c3fb47051774e1957754311d613dbc15394443ab3a0964105a8c54a3e2e3794f- Last verified
- Oct 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 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: Willow Instruments, Willow tram ticket machine controller, model MM-280 (2015). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25965.