Description
Control firmware for an answering machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Blackleigh Bay Radio Amateurs’ Society. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e61ba5668befffe7c347e53777538063fe495b2a219d8ae26b1974d3ea0277fd- Last verified
- Oct 7, 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: Verity Electronics, Verity answering machine controller, model BN-510 (2018). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26951.