As recently as 1989 I registered for college classes using IBM cards and a checkbook. Now they’re both obsolete.
CC
Part of the education at GA Tech when I was there (late 70s -early 80s) was figuring out how to beat the system to get those Hollerith cards to get a decent schedule. Might have been a more important part of the education than some of the classes.
If you did things the way you were nominally supposed to, you probably weren’t getting a decent schedule.