Description
Control firmware for a synthesizer, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. All files were recovered; 43 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7e5484a9831a3f3eaa4ba8940b8e7fcd570a27dcde2e419987faf540bd6eb53f- Last verified
- Oct 20, 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: Moraine Appliances, Moraine synthesizer controller, model CN-940 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38054.