Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2024. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
45a2e3b3fc4b452d79d45bb62465e647b2a75b6eb37ad29fc625125fd896d993- Last verified
- Oct 11, 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: Harrow Electronics, Harrow loom controller, model DJ-990 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38194.