idea question for fellow sysadmins

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:05:04AM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
>
>  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.

I have been asked about physical media a couple of times, but most of my
data-recovery tasks revolve around bad floppies or file formats that are
no longer accessable, like StarWriter, or compressed files on Mac-based
floppies or I-forgot-the-password-on-my-Access-database kind of thing.
-- 

yours,

William

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