At Cambridge in 1965-68 I had submitted programs on punched tape to Atlas -the most powerful computer in the world. The Maths Society had one hour of free time on it per YEAR! Programmes were typed in a basement onto a paper tape of punched holes.
This was submitted to the computer by a whitecoated technician in a Maths Laboratory, and returned on a punched paper tape. Take this back to the basement & put it through the teletype. It types out 'Error in line 2'! Back to typing corrections on this 48 hour turnround. So debugging was very slow. . . Certainly no-one was thinking that an INDIVIDUAL could need or afford such machines!
