However, the "holes" were in the punch cards.  The material punched out was
known as chaff.

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> From: Peter REBERNIK <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Just had to share
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 7:15 AM
>
> Dera Claudia Nicholson,
>
> being curator for Computers without computers on display must be a nice
job.
> 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
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