What engineering breakthrough allowed computers to transition from punchcards to input from a keyboard?

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I can tell I’m dumb because of how much effort I’ve put into trying to understand this and I still haven’t gotten it. But for the life of me I can’t grasp how we got from punch cards to machine language to assembler language. It is almost magic.

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Really mainly was the cost and density of memory- you need enough memory to run programs that take the forms of input that are convenient to humans.

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