NPR's winner was, if memory serves, "snath".
Bob Oldham
Exhibit Maintenance Coordinator
Science Museum of Virginia
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> At 07:19 PM 4/14/98 -0700, William S. Hanable wrote:
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> >However, the "holes" were in the punch cards. The material punched
> out was
> >known as chaff.
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> 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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