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• chad box n. A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad (sense 2) that accumulated in Iron Age card punches.
  You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box....
• punched card:: alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs.
  The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• punched card n.obs. [techspeak] (alt. `punch card') The signature medium of computing's Stone Age, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops.
  The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control device for mechanical looms....
• chad: /chad/ n. 1. The perforated edge strips on printer paper, after they have been separated from the printed portion.
  Also called {selvage} and {perf}. 2. obs. The confetti-like paper bits punched out of cards or paper tape...
• computer confetti: n. Syn. {chad}. Though this term is common, this use of punched-card chad is not a good idea, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
  GLS reports that he once attended a wedding at MIT during which he and a few other guests enthusiastically threw chad instead of rice....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• chad /chad/ n. 1. [common] The perforated edge strips on printer paper, after they have been separated from the printed portion.
  Also called selvage, perf, and ripoff 2. obs. The confetti-like paper bits punched out of cards or paper tape...