Description
Control firmware for a loom, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Rebuilt from 2 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
26ee7e6bb42cc39bda06409020b4b5e07eccfddfbee878feec6fe676953709c9- Last verified
- Oct 27, 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: Tessel Electronics, Tessel loom controller, model SX-420 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38496.