Description
Control firmware for a boiler, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2019. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. About 75 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7ada5504bbc0cdbced6bd1f048c2217b17f5447dd89770d8e57117035e22f869- Last verified
- Oct 5, 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: Strata Controls, Strata boiler controller, model SF-450 (2012). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29973.