At 07:19 PM 4/14/98 -0700, William S. Hanable wrote:
>However, the "holes" were in the punch cards. The material punched out was
>known as chaff.
Some years ago one of the computer magazines ran a contest to name the
strips of paper torn off the sides of tractor-fed computer paper. The
winning responses were, if I remember correctly, "selvedge" and "perfory."
r.baron