Richard Gambrell wrote:
> Harold A. Climer wrote:
>
>>
>>  I was wondering something. I started my college career at Texas A&M in
>> 1967. Even at that time A&M had a computer registration system. Although
>> crude compared to our standards today, it worked.
>>            A student went to his advisor ( No women went to A&M at that
>> time) got his list of classes and a tentative schedule. He then went to
>> the dining hall and stood in line for each class he wanted. If the class
>> he wanted was still open he got a punch card, if it was not he had to
>> get a card for a section that was still open. After the student had
>> gotten all his punch cards he got several more depending on a choice of
>> meal plan, dorm room or whether he was in or out of state. He then took
>> his cards to a card reader which read in his data and got a print out of
>> his fees. He then paid his bill.

And UTC did just that through Fall of 1976.  We went online for Spring
1977.  Very centralized, very crowded, and generally annoying lines.
And 35,000+ cards is a very unmanageable data set, figuratively and
literally :-)

Jeff (has carried cards back from Mac Gym to Hunter) Kell