On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 17:46 -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
There are stories from DEC about DECtapes that were in
someone's
pocket and went through the laundry, without any damage.
Around the PDP-7 its nickname was "chewing gum tape" because they were
fairly sure that someone could chew on it for a while and mount it
without any problems.