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From: bill@videovax.Tek.COM (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: 3M Blackwatch Magtapes
Message-ID: <4288@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 12:06:47 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4288
Posted: Thu Mar 19 12:06:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 09:50:45 EST
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Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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A couple of weeks ago a series of articles were posted on the problems people
were having with Blackwatch tapes.  I didn't think anything of it until a
friend of mine who is a computer operator said he had been having trouble
making system backups because of tape write errors.  I said, "You aren't using
3M Blackwatch tapes, are you?"  And he said, "How did you know?"  His problem
is to convince his superiors that the tapes are bad.  I told him I would print
out all the relevant articles from comp.misc to help him corroborate his story,
only to find out that they had already expired on our system.

So my question to the net is, is there someone who has archived these articles
and would be willing to e-mail them to me?  Or perhaps the original authors
of the articles could e-mail a description of their problems with these tapes.
My friend would be very grateful.  Thanks.
-- 
Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
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