No, it's very interesting! Even as late as the late 70s, college computing was done on a Forbin Project style 'frame - ours was a Cyber, one of the fastest computers then made. The hapless student/researcher would code up his program on Hollerith cards and present the deck at the I/O window - later a public card reader was available and you could submit your own deck, eat some horrid dry cookies or chips with your 10th Dr. Pepper of the day, and wait for the I/O window troll to deliver your output.

General availability of time-share terminals only came in early 80s IIRC.

PROFS for VM/CMS (Professional Office System or some such), the GroupWise of its day, had "virtual card readers" and "virtual punch files". GASP!