Description
Control firmware for a lathe, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Deposited by Vector Corporate Archive in 2024. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f90c44786c6320a1dfa62f58e2c66a40565a6430cfdf657449b59960d806eafd- 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: Tern Controls, Tern lathe controller, model JK-20 (2014). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37950.