Hi All From what I recall about "chad" is that it was a term used for those little circles coming off the paper tape used in the old teletype machines .... resulting from when the machine punched the codes in/on the paper tape We used to iniate the "nugs" (new guys) in the comm center by having them do a chad count at the shifts end Dick S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Bauerschmidt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:33 Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] Chad and Shard > Chad is a perfectly fine American term. It is in Webster's Ninth and Random > House Second Editions. The latter indicates its origin as a computer term > in the 1945-1950 period. >

HERE IS A MAP OF CHAD: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/CIA_Maps/Chad_19866.gif ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dick wrote: > > Hi All > > >From what I recall about "chad" is that it was a term used for those > little circles coming off the paper tape used in the old teletype > machines .... resulting from when the machine punched the codes > in/on the paper tape > > We used to iniate the "nugs" (new guys) in the comm center by having > them do a chad count at the shifts end > > Dick S. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Bauerschmidt" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:33 > Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] Chad and Shard > > > Chad is a perfectly fine American term. It is in Webster's Ninth > and Random > > House Second Editions. The latter indicates its origin as a > computer term > > in the 1945-1950 period. > >