Description
Control firmware for a car radio, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Saltgate Harbour. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c9d9fcb563e9c3e30c2cefe3f50361afd3a19af7cb84793061a08deebad566c7- Last verified
- Oct 15, 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: Onyx Appliances, Onyx car radio controller, model PT-700 (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34331.