Peter said:

>But: someone should write the story - and the history - of HOLES:
>
>Beings would not be without occasional holes. The wheel could not have >been
>invented without holes, water would not be dsitributed without holes,
>without holes in chimneys no industrial revolution - and as we just >learned
>- no information age without the holes of punchcards. And our future: We >all
>will be drawn in by some nameless black hole in the end.
>
>Good hole, as we historians say,
>
>Peter, the Rebernik

My husband says these punchcard holes actually have a name - they are called
"chad", but he doesn't know why - says his daddy told him that when he was
doing puchcards (when he was still in single diget years,8 or 9).

Chrissie devinney