Will Jennings wrote: At one point I worked for a Job Training program. In our part of the program we trained people to be keypunch operators. We used machine that were made by TAB corp and consisted of two keyboards, two 8" floppies and 1 CRT (which was displayed in two displays with a mirror arrangement). the two users would sit facing each other with the floppy drive on the right for each. Each with their own keyboard. The machine would accept data from the keyboard and "punch" it to the 8" drives, 80 collumns per record (I think). You could set it up much the same way you could setup a card punch machine (ie it could do alpha or numeric or duplicate fields based on a "programming" record.) It also had a function to compare typed against already entered records for verifacation.