Description
Control firmware for a drum machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in East Rushfield. Contacts were cleaned before reading. About 92 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8711671a1ed0533f318045e0d479c42f69abff0db68a0c864c10477053836cee- Last verified
- Oct 16, 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: Osprey Appliances, Osprey drum machine controller, model EN-550 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40326.