Description
Control firmware for a boiler, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2022. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Rebuilt from 5 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f54b34b1c17993b4d7be654f7dc636699585954ed073a5abfe265738c6eade1a- 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 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: Corvid Instruments, Corvid boiler controller, model NP-850 (2022). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35171.