I learned to program on Fortran punchcards with a Univac computer the occupied 2 air conditioned floors of the E.E.R.C. building at Michigan Technological University in 1976. Good times. Houghton/Hancock in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Keypunch cards, CRT monitors, big floppy disks, perforated printer paper, mainframe was in either Tallahassee or Gainesville, hours away from my community college.
Aside from my Texas Instrument 99, our first big computer was an Amiga which seemed to be a cross between Windows and Apple, before Apple showed up. We really liked Amiga, very user-friendly for my father and I, two non-tech users.