Description
Control firmware for a synthesizer, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Aldermore Falls and passed to Lazarus. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. About 74 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ab5e47bad4d6efcbdbb4b796eb01aea09bd2d4c24afae53325cc8a4b955a933b- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Summit Appliances, Summit synthesizer controller, model BV-610 (1976). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35094.