Description
Control firmware for a synthesizer, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Northcrest Falls and passed to Lazarus. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f9c1100be4747cf425aeabd14cbbfd8514eebb7f8dc71ed1537e86450ad05646- Last verified
- Oct 26, 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: Foxglove Instruments, Foxglove synthesizer controller, model RT-170 (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31488.