I have a 4mm dat tape that was recorded in 96 on a SUN workstation. The tape was new and was written to once (TAR). It has been in a file cabinet the whole time and appears new.

It contains most of the contents of my home folder at that time.

Id like to pull the files from it but no longer have the equipment.

Searching the web I find any number of services for tape recovery and media conversion, but most seem to be oriented to disaster recovery of badly abused media and typically seem to charge more than a tape drive would likely cost.

Any one have a pointer to a reasonable media conversion service provider?

I'm not looking for any effort beyond what would be typical reading of the tape.