7 Apr
2010
7 Apr
'10
2:03 p.m.
On 04/07/2010 10:01 AM, dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
It seems to me that the little round pieces of paper from
paper tape is chad. The rectangular pieces from punch cards
are chips.
Dwight
Hi!
Everyone around me at the time called it chaff. Even the native IBMers
who used paper tape every single day. Those were the days when IBM
employee payroll statements were still printed on punched cards. Even
the hams called it that. At least those I knew.
Maybe Chad objected.
Maybe they were just funnin' me.
Did IBM really patent all those little chips? I think I've got a few
left over if they want them back. They should be useful as spares for
some keypunch or other.
==
jd
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