I searched all of the top data recovery services I could find for one that offered the service of tape recovery.  I knew that it was probably a shot in the dark to find one, because tapes weren’t exactly as widely used as they had once been – in fact it was probably a once in a blue moon occurrence that any of these companies were even asked to try it.  It did take me a little while to find a company, but not nearly as long as I thought it would have.  I found a company that boasted thousands of successful tape information recoveries.  They described the whole process in detail on their website – first they build an exact replica of the tape case before they even begin the delicate process of the recovery.  By the info presented of the site I felt fairly confident that at least some of my information would be recovered, and at this point anything is a whole lot better than nothing – which is exactly what I’ve got.  So I’m going to send the tape out to them and hope for the best, but expect the worse just in case I don’t fall into one of the thousands of successful attempts.