I restored my 22 year old BBS off Colorado QIC tapes by jury rigging an old mini-ATX board with a floppy tape drive and installing Win98 on it. They read perfectly. Of course you can always pay someone to dump the data for you, but where's the fun in that?! I think any off the shelf modern tape will be just fine in 10 years.
Ha, just tried to read a Colorado tape backup from 98 (tape might be from 96 even, HP T1000 drive) and it ran like a charm. I didn't even realize it was an 18 yo storage until reading your comment.
Even at floppy speed, copying the 400MB wasn't that long, and it's lovely to hear the cute drive noise (for retro lovers).
