I started with paper tape in HS. I may still have a piece. In college, we started with punch cards. I still have my first JCL card I used to submit jobs with. I keep it at work. I've considered several times getting it framed.

BTW, I have also taught computer languages: Pascal, BASIC, Advanced Fortran, PL/I, and assembler. I never knew any human languages well enough to teach them. I think learning other languages has helped me understand English better. I can say that learning programming languages has help my English, but I think it has helped me develop analytic abilities - and I suspect some kinds of writing use similar analytic capabilities. They really should do some brain scans of people performing these tasks - novices, as well as experts.