You might be able to use SOX and auditor requirements to convince them that would be $10K well invested .
Sometimes demonstrating that having the capability "just in case" is good enough to warrant the expenditure. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. --ilvi > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > Sent: Friday 24 March 2006 12:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD > > Data could probably be FTP'd to us, depending on the > sensitivity of the data. I have no idea how often we would > need tapes converted. It might be 2 tapes over the next 5 > years, no tapes, or 200 tapes. We have about 18,000 tapes in > our tape library, however lots of them are scratch, test data, etc. > > I know I researched this before, and found a company that > would sell us a 3490 E model desktop sized drive, and some > software that you could program to convert all of the packed > and binary fields to something that a PC or Unix box could > read. I think that the whole package of tape drive and > software was around $10,000. Personally, I think that would > be the best bet, but I'm not sure they want to spend that > much for something that might never be used. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
