Description
Control firmware for a telescope mount, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by High Plains Arcade Preservation Society, from its own collections. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Only fragments could be read. They are kept because nothing else of the work survives.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d8e60f8fc1850a663aa9e682afa461fe602bd78d2a58981399544e5c8ab43af7- Last verified
- Oct 20, 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: Cobalt Instruments, Cobalt telescope mount controller, model ZP-260 (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31880.