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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There were keyboards on some very early computers. You may really be wondering when we went to interactive instead of batch mode use. It really started around the time MIT let students poke at their machines in the late night hours, in the very early sixties.
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