Description
Control firmware for a cash register, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Riverstead Games Museum in 2021. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. All files were recovered; 13 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b11f68491e6dfa2ebf452f39a3f2cf3369724f4c99bf9fa6ca67edea50b9f1ec- Last verified
- Oct 9, 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: Nimbus Controls, Nimbus cash register controller, model HH-890 (2011). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35233.