Comment by anthk

Partially, but no. First:

- 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.