5 Apr
2010
5 Apr
'10
6:58 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Regardless of what the documentation says, and what the "official" term
is, my mother and her friends who worked as punch operators when I was a
young boy always referred to them as "chads". I still have a couple of
chad boxes my mother gave me when I was little.
Peace... Sridhar
As to punched
cards I never heard the rectangular punchings referred
to as
'chips' on either side of the Atlantic.
I refer you, then, to most IBM punched card documentation on bitsavers.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/cardProc/22-8485-3_operGuide_Sep56.pdf
page 13, for example:
"Chip Box
Slightly to the right of the machine, as you look at it from the rear,
is a removable box, which is the receptacle for the punching chips as
they are cut out. This box can be easily removed, when necessary, by
lifting a catch that locks it into position. The chip box should be
removed and emptied daily."