- Other input that a deck of cards. Terminals and teletypes were a revolution.
- Assembly was much better than hardware switches.
- Also, a proper keyboard input against some "monitor" software was zillions
better than, again, a deck of cards/hardware toggles. When you
can have a basic line basic editor and dump your changes in a paper tape or
print your output you have now live editing instead of suffering batch jobs.
- Other input that a deck of cards. Terminals and teletypes were a revolution.
- Assembly was much better than hardware switches.
- Also, a proper keyboard input against some "monitor" software was zillions better than, again, a deck of cards/hardware toggles. When you can have a basic line basic editor and dump your changes in a paper tape or print your output you have now live editing instead of suffering batch jobs.