Company News

We hope to provide you with a feel for our company's capabilities and track record by highlighting some notable projects and events...

July 2010 - NEW: Microfilm Both In and Out. .MMC has introduced powerful new capabilities for scanning and archiving to microfilm and microfiche. Click here to see the press release.

January 2009 to early 2010 - Onsite in PA, Federal Conversions, Tapes from Overseas, and our "Digital Alexandria". A major corporation, having taken note of our onsite work in DC, Denver, and Dhaka, requested that we set up the software, equipment and support for them to take on the processing of thousands of their own legacy tapes.  Over the past year or so, several different federal agencies requested recovery of data from a variety of arcane media and file formats, in some cases requiring custom software development. On the international front, due largely to our work with IPUMS, it's been a thrill to work with tapes coming in from places like Kathmandu and Lima. This experience has provided inspiration for a presentation we've given at a number of events. Click here to see that.

August-September 2008: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.  The National Science Foundation, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Population Center selected Muller Media Conversions to create a Data Recovery Laboratory for the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in Dhaka.   The initial recovery (1981 census data) was completed in mid-September. Now the BBS staff, having been trained by MMC, continue to use the facility to process several thousand other tapes of interest to Bangladesh government and academic statistical experts. Please click here to see more information about the project.

December 2007 - March 2008: Denver Federal Center. In the USA, certain digital assets that might otherwise not receive much attention are nudged to the forefront by litigation. That was the case when Native American tribes filed suit claiming that the federal government had not kept complete-enough records of mineral rights and other payments due to them over many decades. A judicial order included making extra copies of nearly 9,000 legacy mainframe tapes. The contract was won by Muller Media Conversions and performed at the Denver Federal Center for the U.S. Minerals Management Service. In addition to the physical tape copies, a type of "virtual tape" files were also produced. Project was completed ahead of schedule. PDF press release.

July-October 2007: Qatar Planning Council.> Over a long period, the client had accumulated great amounts of archival data on hundreds of proprietary 4mm Wang VS backup tapes. The legacy systems were becoming difficult to maintain, and an efficient means of high volume conversion was sought. MMC provided rapid conversion of the tapes to files on DVD, as well as custom programming to help categorize the files by record size and general content.

August 2006: NARA DMU Project. MMC has just completed the latest in a series of software developments for the National Archives.  The relationship began in 1992, including such things as the development and enhancement over the span of a decade of the "Archival Preservation System" (APS) which reads, converts and preserves massive amounts of electronic data from many federal agencies. See this page for more detail.

1992-2003: NARA-MMC Contract. Many of our most interesting projects for government agencies, financial institutions and others were built upon the knowledge and skills accumulated over a decade-long sole-source contract with the U.S. National Archives. This relationship is one of our proudest achievements, and let to the development of our DPS™ software product, which has been a mainstay of our service bureau, as well as in many of our customer-site projects. For more information about our early NARA work, please see this page.