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| Data Conversion Bureau |
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Westpoint provides a comprehensive Data
Interchange / Media Conversion Bureau Service and can handle
most tape / disk formats and media. Data can be converted
from or interchanged with Mainframe, Unix, NT, PC, MAC and
other platforms.
Listed below are some formats that we can import / export
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- 3480 - 18 track IBM mainframe cartridge tape.
- 3490 - 18 track with IDRC data compression.
- 3490E - 36 track with IDRC data compression.
- 3590 - 128 track Magstar compatible tape.
- 9 Track - half inch, 800, 1600, 3200, 6250bpi.
- DLT - High capacity compact tape.
- LTO - High capacity cartridge.
- 8mm Exabyte - 7 to 14 GB tape.
- 4mm DAT - 2 to 48 GB tape.
- Q.I.C. - 525 MB to 100 GB Quarter Inch Cartridge
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- CD - Up to 650MB, 8X writing speed.
- DVD - Up to 4.7GB capacity.
- Floppy Diskette - 3 1/2 disc and 5 1/4 disc.
- Jaz - 1GB, 2GB, removable disc
- Hard Disc - SCSI or IDE, any capacity.
- Magneto Optical Disc - 12 inch and 5 1/4 inch MO
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- NT Backup
- Veritas
- DEC VAX VMS Backup
- IBM
- Unix
- Microsoft
- Apple Mac / OSX retrospect
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Data Interchange and Data
Conversion Systems and their use
The evolution of incompatible computer systems has led to
the term of Data Interchange or Data Conversion being used
to describe the transferring of data between different
hardware platforms, operating systems etc. using specific
media and peripherals, most commonly tape.
The Mainframe tape units, such as 9 track (reel to reel) and
3480/90/90E 18 and 36 track cartridge, held information that
needed to be processed by smaller computer systems. Major
tape manufactures then produced low profile desk top tape
units to satisfy this market opportunity, and specialist
software houses developed tape data interchange utilities.
This process was initially known as downsizing and later
rightsizing.
The early tape units were connect via their native Pertec
interface using proprietary Tape Controllers and associated
software. The introduction of SCSI as a standard interface
for peripherals, allowed this early data interchange
software to be further developed and made available for any
tape device, including those intended for back-up, such
as.DAT, Exabyte, DLT and Q.I.C. etc. This has expanded the
market for data interchange between Midrange, Unix, Sun, NT,
PC systems.
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Westpoint specialise in most data formats and media types,
we can help with data migration and system migration tasks |
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