6 Apr
2010
6 Apr
'10
11:58 a.m.
On 5 Apr 2010 at 14:51, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Emptying a paper tape punch/teletype chad box into a cow-orkers briefcase
was common over here ;-).
A non-funny 'joke' is to empty it into the heater inlet of a cow-orker's
car. It could cause a serious accident if said person turns on the blwer
fan when drivign and get s 'snowstorm' in the car. And if a piece of chad
ends up in his eye it could be very nasty.
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.
Dunno, but either was fun to hide in a friend's drawer or light
fixture. Paper tape punches were far nastier than the ones from
punched cards.
Maybe we should call them punched card holes in the spirit of
"doughnut holes"... (for the uninitiated, these are balls of fried
dough, ostensibly cut from the centers of doughnut blanks).
Surely both are anti-holes?
-tony