Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Rushhaven Computer Heritage Centre, which had held it unread for years. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7afa86e28dc44492ead84bae83265958e830439f9a53db023bc6af97c90889af- 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 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: Quarry Appliances, Quarry loom controller, model SB-450 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33729.