Service Bureau Activities

When checking our new location, which otherwise suited our purposes perfectly, the previous owner unfortunately "forgot" to tell us that the room we wanted to use for production, was not quite suitable. The room is now being de-moisturized, so we hope to be able to convert the room into suitable production facilities by Christmas

Our service bureau can useually help in converting data from/to media which are not universally accepted on PC's and/or mainframes.

At this moment (it probably won't be the same tomorrow) our PC's handle the following non-standard equipment:

• Archive Viper 6150 (read/write any DC600 up to QIC150)
• Colorado T1000 (QIC-80, TR1)
• DLT 2000 (DEC)
• DLT 8000 (Compaq)
• Exabyte Eliant 820
• Exabyte 8505XL
• Exabyte 8900
• Fujitsu M2483B (3480 compatible)
• Hewlett-Packard HP1537A (DDS3)
• Tandberg 3800 (read/write any DC600 up to 525 MB)
• Tandberg SLR5
• Tandberg SLR6
• Tandberg SLR24
• Tandberg TDC 3800
• Qualstar 3412S tape drive (9-spors rulletape, 800, 1600, 3200 en 6250 bpi)
• Qualstar 1052 tape drive (9-spors rulletape, 1600/3200 bpi)

We can handle any floppy disk format in circulation (some with more problems then others, of course) from 3.5" to 8", including hard sectored, BUT ...we will not handle 3" Amstrad disks.

Typical jobs we can do in our service bureau include the following:

• fraud investigations / forensics (using other tools like WIZRULE as well);
• converting Excel files to a format suitable for further processing;
• system conversion (e.g. Unix to Windows NT, converting all back-ups and present files);
• converting word processed files into formats suitable for any typesetting or DTP operation;
• converting database data from mainframe to PC;
• converting tapes and disks between different operating systems and different software applications (within limits; sufficient information must be available);
• archiving data from almost any media to CD's;
• duplicating, labelling and mailing 3.5" and 5.25" disks (or even 8" disks).

Many jobs are by definition "one-off" jobs, e.g. converting Philips 5002 WP documents to something more modern.

We have done many jobs like this, e.g. for the State Bank (Nationalbanken), some hospitals and some local authorities, …

Other jobs are/were regulars, such as converting

• a compressed backup of a Bull spool file to IBM 3420 magtape with IBM 1403 spool files for output to microfiche;
• a IBM S/36 backup containing dog data to WordPerfect, so catalogues for a show could be printed;
• company data originating from Tax authorities (no, not the Danish Customs & Tax) to a more suitable format for inclusion in a Credit Information database;
• ledger information from various companies to a format readable by the Tax authorities;
• restore of a "secure" backup bypassing protection measures, so embarrassing faxes could be converted to WordPerfect format.

In short: if you need something done where magnetic media are involved: ask us

List of logical formats that eMag can handle.
List of disc formats that ImWin can handle.
List of tape formats that som ImWin can handle. List of tape drive compatibility.

Major conversion bureau customers in the present and past:

Skandinavisk Glas (Unix database → Inkjet print)
Danish Employers Association (3420-type tapes → floppy disks)
Electric Farm, Norway (3480 tapes → e-mail)
InterMail (any media → Inkjet print)
IBAS, Norway (any media → any media)
PriorityTelecom, Holland (1600 bpi 3420 tapes to CD and FTP)

And some smaller ones

Unicef (address files →; Inkjet print)
Drukkerij Haasbeek (NL) (WP system on Exabyte > Word, incl. conversion of non-standard characters like à, é, ö, ñ, …)
Vivild Color Print (3480 → floppy disk)
Customs & Tax authorities in Denmark and Germany.