idea question for fellow sysadmins

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   While trying to decide what hardware support to build into my (new) 
backup program I got to thinking...

   Would there be any demand for someone to build a collection of old 
media hardware for the purpose of recovering old data to a modern 
format? Before I go to the effort of building a collection of 
old/obscure media drives though, I wanted to pick TLUGs brain, specially 
of you sysadmin types.

   How often, if ever, have you had to find some way of recovering data 
off of old tapes, MO disks and other media? How many of you have this 
media laying around and would like to have it converted to something 
readable (ie: DVD disk, HDD)? If you wanted the data off, would you send 
it off to a media conversion house?

   I realize there are questions like filesystem types, file formats and 
such to consider before I could get off the ground, but I wanted to see 
if there might be any demand before starting this. Thanks for any feedback!

Madi
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