Date   : Sat, 11 Dec 1982101:50:00-EST
From   : X.GYRO@Mit-Mc
Subject: Floppy Disk Warning!!!

A friend of mine at DEC was responsible for designing the drives and
selecting the media for the DEC PCs.  He did extensive head wear
testing of various diskettes with the following interesting result:
Maxell disks had the lowest error rate, but were by far the most
abrasive.  Dysan and Verbatim Datalife were almost as low in errors,
and much less abrasive. (I think he finally picked Datalife, but I'm
not sure.)  But the point is, watch out for Maxell!  (And especially
don't mix them with other disks -- a little of the abrasive remains on
the heads and will rapidly destroy softer coatings.)

-- Scott