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From: boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 3M Black Watch and 700 Tapes
Message-ID: <571@custom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 02:25:47 EST
Article-I.D.: custom.571
Posted: Sun Mar  8 02:25:47 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 03:02:22 EST
References: <903@hropus.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA
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Summary: Don't use 700's either!

In article <903@hropus.UUCP>, jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry Natowitz) writes:
> I was told a while ago that 3M Black Watch tapes have a nasty tendancy
> to pickup contaminants and scratch read/write heads.   .....
> The 3M 700 series tapes *look* just like Black Watch.
> Are they also in the don't use catagory?

Absolutely!  I've had a policy for a LONG time that when I see a
3M 700 it immediately goes into the "circular file".  This was not
something that anyone told me to do, it was from lessons learned the
hard way!

-- 

Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems
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