Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!bukys From: bukys@Rochester.ARPA Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.micro Subject: WANTED: Data Conversion Companies Message-ID: <20521@rochester.ARPA> Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 11:16:37 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.20521 Posted: Tue Sep 2 11:16:37 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Sep-86 21:06:29 EDT Sender: bukys@rochester.ARPA Reply-To: bukys@rochester.arpa Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY Lines: 26 Keywords: data conversion, IBM System/6, IBM-PC, SMART system Xref: mnetor net.wanted:3780 net.micro:5967 A religious community I am acquainted with has a 16,000-entry mailing list database, stored on single-sided single-density floppies by an IBM System/6, which seems to be a simple turnkey database system. Each record is composed of fields, like "title", "address", "postal code", etc (some fields are empty); there are facilities for searching, editing, printing, etc. They now have a PC-compatible, and need some way to get their data from the S/6 floppies to their new system. The software they are using on the PC-clone is something called the "SMART" system, which appears to be an integrated word processing/database/etc package. They have a brochure from one California company called "CompuData", which claims to support S/6 SSSD floppies. It's not clear, yet, what the converted data will look like (ideally it would be a "SMART" database of some sort). If you know of any companies that do these kinds of things, I would appreciate hearing from you. WANTED: company names, addresses, summaries of your experience with them (if any), advice, opinions. I am not a subscriber to these newsgroups, so please mail your responses directly to me, Liudvikas Bukys (rochester!bukys in UUCP-land)