Description
Control firmware for a boiler, 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. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a1b0c2c11bddeb24dd38694ee37fad4a2e240ccb38be7bdf1c0d81e6907372b8- 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 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: Vantage Appliances, Vantage boiler controller, model CF-210 (2014). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40023.