The subject of Forensics Analysis is huge with many books published on the subject. eMag has long been a leader in providing software in this challenging field, and our main area of expertise focuses on decoding tape and floppy disk formats. This article discusses the...

Many companies are moving away from mainframe systems and using large Unix systems instead. This, however, leaves a large gap in the traditional tape handling of the mainframe. This is where MM/UNIX can fit in. MM/UNIX (and MM/PC) has a large number of tape handlers...

Atlanta (June 6, 2002) - On December 17th, 2001 eMag made an announcement related to the cessation of the manufacture of Open Reel (9-track) Tape at our Production facility in Graham, Texas. We received all of the final build requests, and have spent the past five...

eMag Solutions is pleased to announce its capability for the complete erasure, cleaning, re-servo track writing and testing of 3590 media. The production process for 3590 tape cartridges includes the application of three servo tracks, written horizontally along the...

The requirement for recovering data from magnetic media is often thought of as something associated with a natural disaster of one type or another. When a region experiences a tornado, hurricane, earthquake or some other weather related disaster the needs are...

Abertillery (May 20, 2002) - eMag Solutions Limited is relocating to a new modern state-of-the art facility in Abertillery to allow for expanded facilities for the eMag production service center. "The previous building did not meet our current expanding business needs...

Reading a computer tape has always been an interesting challenge. It is easy enough if the tape you want to read was created on the machine you are using, but what if that tape came from another machine maybe even another platform altogether? Well if the format was an...

Atlanta (April 2, 2002) - eMag Solutions LLC, a major manufacturer of half-inch tape for over 30 years, now offers reconditioned and recertified tape media for backup, archival, and mail-out applications. Two grades of media are currently available: reconditioned -...

eMag helps the Police eMag was recently asked to help the police with a high profile criminal case dating from the mid 1980s that was being re-investigated. Although the police had many records relating to the case, some were part of a database that had been generated...

This article sets out to show the reasons for, problems related to, and solutions for successful data interchange. Data interchange can be described as moving information between one computer and another. Depending on types of computer, size of data, confidentially of...