Description
Control firmware for a synthesizer, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2018. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. About 91 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5acbe1e9209d64293cc458e22f9514ee8c9a6b7a6f8a97c03c2caca168ffe861- Last verified
- Sep 25, 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: Northwind Electronics, Northwind synthesizer controller, model AX-40 (2016). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27398.