From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: Floppy Disk Warning!!!
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.351
Posted: Wed Dec 15 20:30:10 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 09:08:44 1982

>From X.GYRO.MIT-OZ@BRL  Mon Dec 13 18:32:13 1982
Sender: X.GYRO.MIT-OZ@BRL
To: Charlie Strom <CSTROM@Mit-Mc>
Cc: info-cpm@BRL
In-Reply-To: The message of 11 Dec 1982  08:36-EST from Charlie Strom <CSTROM at Mit-Mc>
Via:  Mit-Mc; 11 Dec 82 11:50-EST
Via:  Brl; 11 Dec 82 11:56-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 11 Dec 82 11:59-EST

A friend of mine at DEC was responsible for designing the drives and
selecting the media for the DEC PCs.  He did extensive head wear
testing of various diskettes with the following interesting result:
Maxell disks had the lowest error rate, but were by far the most
abrasive.  Dysan and Verbatim Datalife were almost as low in errors,
and much less abrasive. (I think he finally picked Datalife, but I'm
not sure.)  But the point is, watch out for Maxell!  (And especially
don't mix them with other disks -- a little of the abrasive remains on
the heads and will rapidly destroy softer coatings.)

-- Scott