Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Three Rivers Retro Computing Society, from its own collections. Contacts were cleaned before reading. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c7ca279c204853a3090062aae2bc6b78c85bb6eba626c2920812eacf4fadd2c8- Last verified
- Oct 4, 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: Lode Electronics, Lode telescope mount controller, model FP-670 (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27829.