My college was still using a DEC 10 for computer classes in the mid-1980’s.
I talk about running around with my stack of punchcards, and people look at me like “you’re not old enough to have ever worked with one of THOSE.”
In the late 1980’s my college was still using IBM cards for class registration. You went to a big room with boxes full of IBM cards that were labeled with course registration info and meeting times. the system was real simple: if there were cards in the box, the class was still open. No cards= class is full. you went into another room, somebody manually inputted your student #, they ran the cards through a tabulator and you wrote a check for the classes. The printer (which I recall was as big as a photocopier) spit out a class schedule and you were on your merry way. Positively archaic even at that time, but it actually worked quite well. they didn’t switch to a all -up modern computer registration until the early 90’s.
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Took a fortran class in 1972. Punch card entry. You dropped your cards at the computer center and two days later your output might be in one of the mailboxes provided.
The term, ‘user-friendly’, had not been invented yet.