Data conversion services

Data Conversion Services


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 data from:

TAPE	DISK
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	CD - Up to 650MB, 8X writing speed. DVD - Up to 4.7GB capacity. BD - Up to 50GB UDO - Plasmon UDO discs 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
TAPE formats and applications and operating system supported
NT Backup Veritas DEC VAX VMS Backup IBM Unix Microsoft Apple Mac / OSX retrospect
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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