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chad box
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n. A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large
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wastebasket), for collecting the chad (sense 2) that accumulated in Iron Age
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card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and
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empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in
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the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great
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gray-and-blue box.
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