Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site drivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!landauer From: landauer@drivax.UUCP (Doug Landauer) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: terminology survey Message-ID: <171@drivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 19:43:18 EDT Article-I.D.: drivax.171 Posted: Mon Jul 1 19:43:18 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:52:38 EDT Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Lines: 11 In article <384@ttidcb.UUCP> guzman@ttidcb.UUCP (Marc Guzman) writes: > "What do you call the strips of paper, with the tractor feed > holes, that you can tear off of computer paper?". This question was asked and answered last year in a survey in a [micro?]computer magazine (I forgot which one). The winning term was "perfory", which seems to be a portmanteau of "perforation" and "periphery". -- -- Doug Landauer -- ...[ ihnp4 | mot | ucscc | amdahl ] !drivax!landauer