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chez_jay-
Not that it's a competition, when I first started learning to code formally I used punch cards. My teacher was of the old school where they preferred to teach the maths before allowing you to move on to the 2GL and 3GL languages. They had a pretty cool collection of what were nearly museum pieces, including an amazing "laptop" that weighed 20kg and had wheels!
Stonehedge
To be fair, probably cost a pretty fortune...
Coding our old one was fun. It could only access 4 8Kb chunks of RAM at any one time. To use more, you had to switch between different memory banks.
Also, to write to disk (5.25" floppy"), you had to code the read/write block by block.