Quayle Consulting Performs Unique Data Conversion Services

• Converting legacy floppies and tapes for use on modern Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
• Migrating customer data from legacy systems to virtual disks for use with the Charon emulators.
• Conversion of floating-point data into open formats.
• Conversion of VMS 64-bit date values into open formats.
• Conversion of RT-11 and other PDP-11 format floppies.
• Rebuild of boot sectors from improper OpenVMS backups.

Quayle Consulting can accept the following media

Disks

• Floppy disks: 3.5 inch, 5-1/4 inch and 8 inch written by Windows, Unix, Linux, DOS, and OpenVMS
• Linux format and OpenVMS format CD-ROM and DVD
• 3.5 inch magneto-optical (MO) disk
• 8-bit and 16-bit StorageWorks disk units
• 50-pin and 68-pin SCSI disk without an enclosure
• SATA and IDE disks without an enclosure

Tapes

• 9-track tape, including 800, 1600, and 6250 BPI
• DLT Tape formats: DLTape IV (DLT-IV), DLTape III (DLT-III)
• DEC Tape formats:
  • TK50 (CompacTape)
  • TK70 (CompacTape III)
  • TZ30, TZ85, TZ86, TZ87
  • 1/4 inch ("quarter inch") cartridge (DEC TZK10)

We cannot read

• Apple Mac disks
• CP/M disks
• Disks that have "hard sectors', such as IBM word processor disks

Any quotes are for disks and tapes created with standard backup utilities. Non-standard backup software will require research on a time-and-materials basis.

VAX Systems

• VAXstation 4000/60, with OpenVMS installed.
• Custom VAXstation, with drive to read 8-inch floppies

PC Systems

• Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop, with Windows 10 Pro.
  
• Dell XPS400, running CentOS Linux.
  
• Custom system built by ASA Computers, running Windows Server 2016.
  

Other DEC Items

• Two DEC TSZ07 9-track reel-to-reel tape drives.
• Exabyte 8505 tape drive. Can read 8mm tapes, such as the Sony QG-112M.
  
• Six TZ87-TA tape drives. Can read TK50, TK70, and DLT-3 tapes.
• Software for VAX and Alpha, copied from Consolidated Distribution CD's.
• DEChub 90 components: hubs, terminal servers, and bridges.
• A large collection of MMJ cables and connectors.

Test/Development Equipment

• CommFront 232Analyzer serial port analyzer.
  
• BP Microsystems EP-1140 EPROM programmer