How do I import a file into an Access database?

Throughout the years following World War II, primitive electronic computers were run by governments and corporations; these were very often used to implement flat file databases, the most typical of which were accounting functions, such as payroll. Very quickly, though, these wealthy customers demanded more from their extremely expensive machines, which led to early relational databases. Amusingly enough, these early applications continued to use Hollerith cards, slightly modified from the original design; Hollerith's enterprise grew into computer giant IBM, which dominated the market of the time. The rigidity of the fixed-length field, 80-column punch card driven database made the early computer a target of attack, the butt of jokes, an idol worshipped, and a mystery to the common man.