Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2018. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
709014ebaaeab50187e725d925f3f65bc467e3bf68bdcaa4ac90c43c5eb869fb- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Bluebell Appliances, Bluebell telescope mount controller, model GL-140 (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27077.