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That doesn't align with most accounts of how computing was performed in the 50's and 60's.

For instance, Knuth was seen as an anomaly because he would operate the keypunch as fast as the secretaries and would keypunch his own programs.

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Programmers aren't and weren't keypunch operators. Or secretaries.

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No, they would have been known as "computer operators" and still been counted in the "computer related occupations" bucket.

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