When I was in high school we had a PDP System 10 and PDP 11 where I took a programming course on PDP-11 assembly language. It makes me feel old knowing these weren't antiquated at the time.
Wow! Did you ever meet Charles Babbage? ;)
No but something nearly as bad was typing on punch cards and having to feed them into a card reader to get the code into the computer. And all but one of the terminals was a TTY at 110baud and printed on paper. There was a single Dec VT100/102 terminal you had to get in early to use.