5 Apr
2010
5 Apr
'10
2:51 p.m.
Somebody might check some manuals for teletypes or paper-tape punches for the
'official term' used for the punch detritus from paper tape. TMR, the box on
the side of the teletype paper tape punch was commonlny called the chad box.
I wonder if "chad" had origins with teletypes and paper tape, an industry
(telephone) separate from the punched card / data processing industry way back
when, and in which different terminology developed.