Computers Before Keyboards

Computing was a lot more challenging before July 4th 1956 because that's when MIT revolutionised their Whirlwind Computer ... by introducing a keyboard !

Before that, interacting with computers was a laborious, time-consuming process. Programmers would offer instructions to these mammoth machines by the manual insertion of punched cards, an operation requiring meticulous accuracy. They also changed dials and switches, physically reconfiguring the hardware to implement different instructions.