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