31 May
2014
31 May
'14
10:19 a.m.
On May 30, 2014, at 22:20 , John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
I remember little
blocks of foam on magtapes, and it's all a blur now).
You remember those correctly. I got a 5-pack of NOS 3M magtapes off eBay a while back, and
they each have the little foam block to hold the tape end in place during shipment. I do
not recall ever seeing one back in the day, though. I think they must have been discarded
at the sites I worked in.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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