[net.video] weird tapes

kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling) (07/16/85)

All the tapes I've ever bought are L-500s and L-750s, because that's the
max my old vcr can handle.  That's what I thought I had, anyway, because
that's what the boxes said.  Come to notice last night that some of the
"L-750s" have L-830 stamped on the bottom.  I suspect this explains why
my old machine occasionally had trouble with specific tapes.  And when
that happened, I threw out the "bad" tapes, lest they damage the machine.
Thanks a lot, Sony.