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This page is comprised of:
info@mullermedia.com for
general information.
sales@mullermedia.com for a price
quotation or to initiate dialogue concerning a new project.
support@mullermedia.com to ask
about an existing project, or for software support.
Our phone number is 1-516-833-3067. Note that you can also
fax to the same number, since our computer PBX
system can recognize incoming faxes and treat them properly. Therefore, we no
longer have a separate number for faxes.
Mailing Address:
Muller Media Conversions
21 Locust Street
Manhasset, NY 11030
Data Readiness is our mission. It
seems that just when you need that information most, something jumps up
and tries to drag it out of reach. It might be incompatible with your
system, or physically damaged by misuse or simple aging. Our goal is to
return the value that may have been lost to your information. To prevent
it from happening again, we offer migration to long-lived media, and
custom software development as needed.
We are pleased to have been busily serving our
clients for more than a quarter-century. MMC is in this for the
long haul, and we treat our clients accordingly.
If you're interested primarily in our Data
Preservation work, you may wish to skip what's below and
click on "Compliance" above, or on "DPS News"
(here or at the bottom of the page).
If you're interested primarily in our Legacy
Data Conversion work (e.g.- for Wang VS data), you may wish
to click on "Fast'nEZ News"
(here or at the bottom of the page).
If you'd like to skip to our Articles
and Literature in PDF, click on "Info/Library" to
the left or at the end of the page.
We were founded in 1978 to serve banks, law firms and financial
printers in the rapid preparation of legal and financial documents.
None of the word-processing products on the market had the
capabilities that we wanted, so we wrote our own package (on a
PDP-11 minicomputer). We also needed to be able to exchange
data with our clients, and also
with financial printers who generally used mainframes or minicomputers
for typesetting.
So... we wrote a series of conversion tools. One of
our clients in banking mentioned that he needed to migrate thousands
of documents from one word-processor to another. We were able to
modify our converters to do the job--and the rest, as they say, is
history. By 1980 there were four nationally-known media conversion
centers. Though many others have arisen in the meantime, MMC is the
only one of the original four still standing.
Wang computers and word-processing systems tended to
predominate in the 1980's and early 1990's. Our conversion tools for
this family of computers have been particularly strong. Ironically, we
have helped many firms migrate both to and from Wang systems. The Wang
VS in particular has been a reliable workhorse for many--and we are still
doing significant volumes of conversion in this area. Please click
this "Fast
'n Easy™" link for more on this capability.
Other background documents can be found, in Acrobat format, by clicking
here, or on the
"Info/Library" link below.
National Archives (NARA). "The
Nation's Records Are A Mess" ...so stated stories in 1991 by
the Associated Press, Charles Osgood and others,
referring to deplorable condition of many Federal
electronic records. RFQs were sent to over 200 firms and ultimately, MMC
was awarded the contract to develop and support the software and
hardware for APS, which converts, preserves and catalogues information received by NARA's Center for Electronic
Records. The GSA Technology Excellence Award
was presented to Project Leader Fynette Eaton in recognition of the design and
implementation of these systems. The development and ongoing
enhancement continued through 2002.
In late 2005, MMC was awarded a further contract to enhance the system
for remote (iSCSI) tape drives and libraries.
Tennessee Valley Authority. Since 1994, the TVA has relied on
MMC to handle many of its most challenging conversion
issues such as: · Fast 'n Easy™ was selected as the agency-wide standard for legacy file
conversion (105 Wang VS's). · MMC consulting and programming
services were used to migrate older document management
systems to TVA's new Saros
environment. · MMC has developed a PDF
Rendition Server for TVA. The package first
pre-validates Microsoft Word, Excel and several other
file formats to ensure that no problems exist that would
prevent a faithful recreation (e.g.- non-standard fonts),
and then automatically renders them into Adobe
Acrobat PDF for
distribution and long-term preservation.
We've done many direct-contract projects for
other federal, state and local agencies. References on request.
Contract Vehicles.
Federal, state and local agencies can now use our GSA contract,
number GS35F0659M .
Here
are just a few examples of projects which demonstrate
our capabilities:
The Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi ...has used MMC-licensed
systems to preserve
thousands of IBM tape cartridges on DVD-R. The PC-based
system is optimized to require a minimum of operator intervention, and
no mainframe resources. This method satisfies government
regulators and moves the data to widely-compatible and long-lived
media. See an article on this project from Data Center
Management magazine here.
Law Firms and Law
Enforcement
often come to MMC for Electronic Evidence Conversions. More than 20 year's experience in
"cracking" complex media and file formats has
laid the foundation for the firm's extraordinary
capabilities in the arena.
National Archives Conversion
Services
Our relationship with NARA has been primarily that of software
developers. However, we also provide services to convert "difficult" media and
data formats. These have included mainframe tapes with a proprietary database of
President Nixon's Appointment Calendar. More recently (2006), we
converted over 400 8mm, 4mm and QIC tapes containing White House records from
1996.
  
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