Description
Control firmware for a sewing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
60e6c687edf872148e2ba32fe888623957d8cf3ed62517cc3c5c20a5ed89306a- Last verified
- Oct 13, 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: Willow Electronics, Willow sewing machine controller, model BG-550 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31496.