I started w/ these.
They slipped through your fingers and didn't seem to put up w/ metal strings too well... But I had 3 or 4 and I had to treat them as if they were made of diamond because we were rather poor I guess.
Come to think of it, the individual strings I used to buy were also Gibson.
Heck, I even had a Gibson belt buckle.
But in the early 80s, Gibson wasn't too glamorous...