Compro Professional Services

Legacy Media Retrieval Service (LMRS)

LMRS offers a convenient, professional fixed-price service that moves data from old, obsolete media to modern formats.

Description

Fragile, bulky, aging media archives pose potential data-loss and waste valuable facility assets. Compro's LMRS addresses this liability by offering a convenient, fixed-price service, transferring data from legacy to modern media. We will retrieve your old SEL, Gould or Encore data, and re-write it using modern, reliable media products. If desired, we will perform 9-track to 9-track transfers using new, fresh tapes.

Compro will accept any one of the following:

• 1 Disk Pack
• 1 Disk Drive
• 3 Magnetic Tapes (9-track, QIC, etc.)
• 1 DAT

Service Includes:

• Physically inspect the media to determine basic readability
• Set up a system with appropriate peripheral device(s)
• De-compress (if applicable), and read data from customer-supplied media
• Output media in one of the following formats:
  • 0 = Hard Copy
  • 1 = 9 TK, 800 BPI Magnetic Tape
  • 3 = 9 TK, 1600 BPI Magnetic Tape
  • 5 = 5 1/4" Floppy Disk
  • 6 = 8" Floppy Disk
  • 7 = 1/4" Cartridge Tape (required MPX 3.6.0 or later)
  • 8 = 8mm Cartridge Tape (Exabyte)
  • 9 = 3 1/2" Floppy Disk
  • B = 9 TK, 6250 BPI Tape
  • C = CD ROM
  • D = 4mm DAT
  • V = DVD ROM

Model Number:

CS07-LMRS-x
where x=output format
Price: $2,000
Non-Discountable

Note: Customer will be required to complete a release document certifying legal ownership of submitted material and data/information contained therein. If after initial inspection and equipment setup media is unreadable, it will be returned to the customer and a flat $750 inspection/setup/processing fee will be charged.