Description
Control firmware for a washing machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Ironhurst Falls Computer Heritage Centre in 2020. All files were recovered; 5 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0852657e179f2ed3c554dbb10efd0002c2ddb6cfbb1bbfb8d033ec12071fe544- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Whimbrel Controls, Whimbrel washing machine controller, model PV-670 (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31610.