Description
Control firmware for a drum machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Greenwater Bay Computer Heritage Centre. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ec46baa51f9e0b1f7afa5ce57ce5a4e7e59f1716af4080abe709827062a9645f- 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: Lumen Electronics, Lumen drum machine controller, model RK-170 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31896.