I know this is a joke, but I actually used to handwrite all of my programs.
Back then, I would then keypunch them the next time I was on campus and could access a keypunch machine. Writing even a modest 1000 line program was quite a chore because you'd have to carry around a box of 1000 cards and keep them from getting mixed up. Here's a picture of a full 2000 card box[1]; notice how we used to write diagonal lines on the edges of the cards to help put them in order after spilling the box on the floor!
See [2] for a picture of the first kind of keypunch machine I ever used, the IBM 026. The subsequent model, the IBM 029, was much better.
Of course the turnaround time wasn't measured in seconds back then. Once, I was given an assignment that required writing a program in IBM 360 assembler, it was the first time I ever had to write assembly language. With the aid of IBM's excellent manual, IBM 360 Principles of Operation, I hand wrote this program, went to campus to keypunch the program, and turned it in for one of the seven scheduled overnight submissions we were allowed. After around the fifth attempt I was starting the think that I wouldn't get credit for this assignment; miraculously, on my seventh and last submission the program finally worked.
