They usually got a new one, yeah. I think they kept the old one, at least until they got rid of the cards altogether. They started doing that when I was in high school. Gave everything a barcode and a serial number.

[He had missed seeing people's handwriting on those cards.]

Ours are a little high tech but this is about easy enough for me to keep up with. Most of the time. Don't tell anybody.

[He says as if his technological ineptitude isn't obvious. Way to go spending all your time with an android, sir.]