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