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So, back to the past... can't imagine what these cards look like.<BR><BR>Anyone who knows anything about this?<BR><BR>Convert an 80 character ASCII file to IBM Column Binary format.<BR>AND<BR>Convert ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ...