Description
Control firmware for an answering machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7b411f63fc67cd63a4bb0505385f5dd1d6d9f56bbbbabc244eb40aa7f9bd10df- Last verified
- Oct 27, 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: Osprey Appliances, Osprey answering machine controller, model BS-550 (2020). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34036.