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Re: Just had to share
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Bob Oldham <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:12:44 -0400
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NPR's winner was, if memory serves, "snath".
Bob Oldham
Exhibit Maintenance Coordinator
Science Museum of Virginia

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> From:         Robert A. Baron[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Museum discussion list
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 15, 1998 9:03 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Just had to share
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> 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
>

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