1970: My first position was computer operator and the computer was the IBM 360, BPS, 8K memory, with an IPL (initial program load that is a bootstrap to load the rest of the brains) on a deck of punched cards manually fed into an electro-mechanical card reader followed by another deck of cards that loaded the operating system into memory. The operator loaded the reader with another stack of cards (an object deck of a compiled application) for execution where the output was a combination of a printed report on an IBM 1403 (a reliable tank), punched cards or card images on reels of magnetic tape.
The entire memory available was 8,192 bytes where both the operating system and the application needed to be loaded in order to execute. Consider today where the numbers are astronomical for everything.
Rainer, you probably typed it out on an IBM 029.