Chad (continued)

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     This is like a musical comedy.  I'm thinking CHICAGO.  Any minute now, I
expect Katherine Harris to go into Roxie Hart mode and sing:  "It's just a
voting hall where's there's a nightly brawl and all...those...chaaaaads!"

June 1960, GLOSSARY OF TERMS IN COMPUTERS AND DATA PROCESSING (Berkeley
Enterprises, Inc., Newtonville, Mass.) by Edmund C. Berkeley and Linda L.
Lovett.  Pg. 16:
chad--A small piece of paper tape or punch card removed when punching a hole
to represent information.
chadless--Paper Tape.  A type of punching of paper tape in which each chad is
left fastened by about a quarter of the circumference of the hole, at the
leading edge.  This mode of punching is useful where (1) it is undesirable to
destroy information written or printed on the punched tape or (2) it is
undesirable to produce chads.  Chadless punched paper tape must be sensed by
mechanical fingers, for the presence of chad in the tape would interfere with
reliable electrical or photoelectric reading of the paper tape.

1960--GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING (Business
Publications ltd., London), edited by Erroll de Burgh Wilmot.  Pg. 10, col. 2:
CHAD: n.  Piece of paper separated from a tape when a hole is punched through
it.
CHADLESS TAPE: n.  Paper tape in which a code is punched without perforating
completely, hence without making CHADS (_q.v._).

1962--COMMUNICATIONS DICTIONARY (John F. Rider Publisher, Inc., NY) by James
F. Holmes.  (Same as 1965 below--ed.)

1965--DATA TRANSMISSION AND DATA PROCESSING DICTIONARY (John F. Rider
Publisher, Inc., NY) by James F. Holmes.  Pg. 13, col. 2:
_chad:_  Perforations severed from paper tape or cards.
(Pg. 14, col. 1--ed.)
_chadless tape:_  Tape used in printing telegraphy (teletypewriter
operation).  The perforations are not completely severed from the tape,
thereby permitting the characters representing the perforations in the tape
to be printed on the same tape.
_chad tape:_  Tape used in printing telegraphy (teletypewriter operation).
The perforations are severed from the tape making holes representing
characters.  The characters are not normally printed on chad tape.

1966--COMPUTER AND DATA PROCESSING, DICTIONARY AND GUIDE (Prentice-Hall) by
Jack Horn.  Pg. 20:
_Chad:_  a piece of paper removed when punching holes in paper tape.
_Chad Tape:_  the type of paper tape on which the discs of papers are
entirely detached, giving "clean hole" punching.  Contrasts with _Chadless
Tape_.
_Chadless Tape:_  the type of paper tape in which the punching does not
produce a clean hole, in that the disc of paper is not completely cut out.
Information can be printed over the tape "holes" as the paper fills the
"holes."  Contrasts with _Chad Tape._

1972--IBM DATA PROCESSING GLOSSARY.  Pg. 20, col. 2:
_chad._  The piece of material removed when forming a hole or notch in a
storage medium such as punched tape or punched cards.  Synonymous with chip.
_chadded._  Pertaining to the punching of tape in which chad results.
_chadless._  Pertaining to the punching of tape in which chad does not result.
_chadless tape._  Perforated tape with the chad partially attached, to
facilitate interpretive printing on the tape.

1981--THE DEVIL'S DP DICTIONARY (McGraw-Hill Book Company) by Stan
Kelly-Bootle.  Pg. 28:
_chad_ n. (plural _chadim_)  A piece of confetto produced by a tape or card
punch.
_chadless tape_ n.  Paper tape prepared on a punch with blunt pins.  _See
also_ CHAD.

1983--THE ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF TYPOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (Rochester
Institute of Technology, NY) by Professor Michael L. Kleper.  Pg. 30:
_chad_  The waste material produced during the perforation of paper or
plastic tape.
_chadded paper_  Perforated tape with the holes completely removed.  See
chadless tape.
_chadless tape_  Paper or plastic tape punched so that the holes are not
entirely severed from the tape.