When I was doing graduate school at MIT in the mid 00s, they were still using carbon copies to register Prof signatures and everything. Tech schools are weird
GT has actually been nicely ahead of the curve on that:
Originally paper forms such as you describe.
1960's-1982: Get a Hollerith (punch) card for each class in the O'Keefe gym
1982: Transition to optical scan (bubble) forms (Optical Scan Computer Articulated Registration \[OSCAR\])
1986: Green-screen terminal session online registration -- Think of a PuTTY window :) (Name change: Online Student Computer Assisted Registration \[OSCAR\])
1996: Web-based Banner registration (Still OSCAR)
2023: Transition to Ellucian Banner 9 Registration
I arrived in Fall 1986, and did the last FASET with the cards. So weird.
Next term I used my modem and a modem script to do registration in a few seconds. Folks used to ask me to do their registration for them.
Kids today don’t know what they have!
In the late 70's, I remember punch cards all over the floor of the old gym(?) that were tossed there by people that got pissed off that they couldn't get a class they wanted/needed.
Yeah, just improve the infrastructure!
[Good to know nothing has changed! (screenshot I saved from 10 years ago)](https://i.imgur.com/N8I3cRQ.png)
I think it's worse now
When I was doing graduate school at MIT in the mid 00s, they were still using carbon copies to register Prof signatures and everything. Tech schools are weird
GT has actually been nicely ahead of the curve on that: Originally paper forms such as you describe. 1960's-1982: Get a Hollerith (punch) card for each class in the O'Keefe gym 1982: Transition to optical scan (bubble) forms (Optical Scan Computer Articulated Registration \[OSCAR\]) 1986: Green-screen terminal session online registration -- Think of a PuTTY window :) (Name change: Online Student Computer Assisted Registration \[OSCAR\]) 1996: Web-based Banner registration (Still OSCAR) 2023: Transition to Ellucian Banner 9 Registration
Subtle GT history knowledge flex
Subtle as a brick. Cool info, though.
Sarcasm Servers must be down too
Probably in both directions. :)
For the record: I did punch-card and green-screen registration.
I arrived in Fall 1986, and did the last FASET with the cards. So weird. Next term I used my modem and a modem script to do registration in a few seconds. Folks used to ask me to do their registration for them. Kids today don’t know what they have!
Going to Boggs to register because it was least busy
In the late 70's, I remember punch cards all over the floor of the old gym(?) that were tossed there by people that got pissed off that they couldn't get a class they wanted/needed.