Legacy data
Managing and recovering old data — from ancient tapes to file formats nobody documented.
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A lot of Fortran systems sit on top of decades of data: binary records in undocumented formats, files copied from machines that no longer exist, tapes nobody has read in years. We are comfortable in that territory — and we know how to bring that data back into a system you can use today.
Where we add value
- Reading old binary formats — record-based, fixed-width, vendor-proprietary, or whatever the previous decade left you with.
- Reverse-engineering schemas from the Fortran code that wrote the files, when documentation is long gone.
- Pulling data off old media and old machines onto modern storage with integrity checks.
- Migrating recovered data into modern stores (SQL, files, APIs) without losing fidelity — see Examples → SQL.
- Long-term archiving plans so this is the last time anyone has to do it.