LPPM MMV "Challis Tie"

[Dave Monroe]

"'You look compassionate,' Debby said suddenly. 'Is
there somewhere we can talk?' and Siegel, pulled away
from the IBM cards, thought Jesus Christ, here we go
again. He led her into the bedroom, which was
beginning to look like some perversely-decorated
confessional, and wondered whether this had been David
Lupescu's place for listening to bent souls. He had a
hunch it was. She stood close to him and played with
his Challis tie and gave him the demure bit with the
eyelashes again." (MMV, p. 8)


"IBM cards"

The first practical use of punched cards for data
processing is credited to the American inventor Herman
Hollerith, who decided to use Jacquard's punched cards
to represent the data gathered for the American census
of 1890, and to read and collate this data using an
automatic machine.

http://www.maxmon.com/punch1.htm

The primary storage for data, and later programs were
cards .... Cards were used to control Jacquard weaving
looms already in 1806....

Hermann Hollerith adapted the concept for data storage
and processing in the 1890 census. His patented cards
originally had 20 columns with 10 rows, expanded
eventually to 45 columns and 12 rows. The cards had
round holes, a format retained by Remington Rand,
later, Sperry-Rand, subsequently Univac, and now
Unisys. Initially the cards were read by having a box
of pins descend, and where a hole was encountered the
pins would make contact in a mercury bath below.
Herman Hollerith earned a PhD from Columbia University
in 1890 for his work.

Hermann Holerith's company, the Tabulating Machine
Corporation (TMC) merged with two other companies in
1911 to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company (CTR), which changed its name to International
Business Machines (IBM) in 1924. IBM. IBM switched to
80-column card in 1929, with square holes, which were
easier to read while moving through equipment....

http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/2-2-ElecKeyPunch.htm


"Challis tie"

Main Entry: chal·lis 
Pronunciation: 'sha-lE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural chal·lises  /'sha-lEz/
Etymology: probably from the name Challis
: a lightweight soft clothing fabric made of cotton,
wool, or synthetic yarns 

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=challis

E.g., ...

http://www.polo.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1846911&cp=1760781.1760796&nav=lhn&parentPage=family

But ...

Main Entry: chal·ice 
Pronunciation: 'cha-l&s
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from
Latin calic-, calix; akin to Greek kalyx calyx
1 : a drinking cup : GOBLET; especially : the
eucharistic cup ...

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=chalice

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