i wrote something on an ibm pc back in the early 80s to replace several univac card punches, which we could not get sensible maintenance contracts for anymore.

i wrote something on an ibm pc back in the early 80s to replace several univac card punches, which we could not get sensible maintenance contracts for anymore. the program allowed the operator to specify tab-stops (much like a typewriter) and specify if a field was alfa or numeric. these were being used by some of the most fiendish (and in many cases the pritiest) data input ladiews i have ever come across. the input was written on to an msdos disk file, and then transferred to mainframes and minis via kermit.