It might be interesting to think about how something like this might be explicitly tied to building collections or contributing content to the commons. For example, one could imagine offering the service for free for anyone who is willing to describe their content and have a copy of their disk images archived and potentially put up online for researchers.

Something like donating your bits to science 🙂

There is also an amateur community, like the Vintage computing folks www.vintage.org/ who might be another group to bring into the mix.