Description
Control firmware for a cash register, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Friends of North Pinemore History, which had held it unread for years. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
964c7c92910b9385bd7c1231605a4f2cbe94d7c2a8710f03d1fd17896f64fe91- Last verified
- Oct 21, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
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: Swift Instruments, Swift cash register controller, model TJ-350 (2014). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33726.