And I want to get replacements… Is this possible, 19 years after I took the test? Who, and how, would I go about doing this?
My WAG is that you unconsciously blocked the score out of your mind because it was so good that you, being so modest, felt embarrassed when telling people about it.
I can’t help you with how to obtain a notification about your score. But if you are curious about how you did, you could take a self-administered practice test; whatever score you get should approximate the original mark, assuming your test-taking abilities haven’t been rusted by the inevitable passage of time. In any case, the increased vocabulary and improved rational skills that experience has stimulated should balance out that effect.
With it having been 19 years, it could be a bit difficult. You might try contacting your High School and college, as they could still have them on file somewhere. Part of me seriously doubts that they will have them, but it’s worth a shot.
I suppose the obvious thing to do is to contact The College Board, which administers the SAT. In fact, they say here that “your scores are kept indefinitely.” So I assume that, even 19 years later, you can get your scores sent to you. The same page tells you who to contact and how much it costs.
You can take a full-length online test from the Princeton Review. The results will not be official, but it should be good enough if all you want to do is to satisfy your curiosity. Keep in mind that SAT scores were renormed in the early 1990s, so your score today will not be directly comparable to the score you got in the early 1980s. The renorming has the effect of adding about 100 points to the composite score for most people. However, when I took the online test, I bettered by old score by 170 points, so there are other things besides the renorming that will affect your score.
The online test can be found at the following URL (free registration required). http://tester.review.com/
They are kept indefinitely, and the address is on the web.