Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!rice!sun-spots-request From: hoop@khonshu.colorado.edu (Don Hooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: my query about 8mm tape brands Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1990Nov4.030311.1321@rice.edu> Date: 4 Nov 90 03:00:00 GMT Sender: sun-spots-request@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 24 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Originator: spots@titan.rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 357, message 1 X-Original-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 19:16:10 -0600 X-Refs: Original: v9n302 I have received thirteen replies (and one "me too") to my query about brands of 8mm tapes. Most seemed quite happy with the Sony P6-120MP grade. Two thought Maxell tapes were OK while three recommended against using Maxells. Only one seemed to endorse the High Grade Sony tapes, and I'm not sure of that one since the response was decidedly brief. My thanks to all who offered advice: ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble) stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters) Tony Rick utah-cs!unify.com!srm (Steve Maraglia) Fereydoun Tavangary "Rodney L. Weaver" ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell) glenn@synaptics.com (Glenn Gribble) u0628107@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Art Cashin) Tad Guy teda!attain!jxh (Jim Hickstein) malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) mailrus!uunet!salt!china!rpf@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Richard Foley) Individual thank-yous were sent out, and, mailers willing, will arrive. Don Hooper, hoop@boulder.colorado.edu ...!uunet!ncar!boulder!hoop