Description
Control firmware for a sewing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by North Blackvale Computer Heritage Centre, which had held it unread for years. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. All files were recovered; 20 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
df98fcb31a9849ef1ec8244c5c291f5be29aa40706eb58230b6a808d945f5017- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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: Gyre Instruments, Gyre sewing machine controller, model MM-890 (2007). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30101.