[api]

You needed a bunch of Ph.Ds to operate early digital computers too. You didn’t just unbox one of those and start doing stuff.

This is probably the 1930s of quantum computing.

[boothby]

If I know my history,* the first programmable classical computer was made in 1941; we had the D-Wave One programmable quantum computer in 2011. So... the 50s?

* I don't, so I read a Wikipedia article or two