BASF made very bad audio tapes in the 60'th and 70'th , after a few years
the powder came off the tape.
But as I recall BASF media was rebranded to 3M in the 90'th with is now
rebranded to imagination.
-Rik
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Namens Christian Corti
Verzonden: vrijdag 26 september 2008 10:51
Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Onderwerp: Re: SCSI to IDE bridges...
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Floppies and reliability is just a sad topic. Back
when floppies were
still an integral part of the network (think Sneakernet), one brand
got its brand name expanded to "Byte Abweisende SchutzFolie"
(translated: "Byte rejecting protective sheet") because they were _that_
bad.
And this is an urban legend since all my BASF floppies are (still) good.
They weren't worse than floppies from any other brand. Anyways, they don't
produce any magnetic media since a couple of years any more.
Christian