Wow, takes me back... PDP-11, punched cards, ...
I also did paper tape
I wanted a Mini-Vax as my first home computer. Way too expensive.
A few years went by and I finally got my first home computer... An Amiga 2000. Put in 4 MB of RAM (that was expensive), 40 MB hard drive on the SCSI bus. It had MIDI sound, a full multi tasking OS. I stress tested it with 23 graphical programs all running at once. Very slowly but all running.