chad box

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chad box - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  chad box
  chip box
  
     <hardware> (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about
     the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large
     wastebasket), for collecting the chad 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 grey-and-blue box.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-11-20)
  

chad box - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.