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by John Sam, Batch '99

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Abacus, Anyone

by Earl on Monday, July 23, 2012 · 0 Comments

Perspective From Down Under

by Eddie Dy, Batch '66

In this Digital Age, we lost so many things in the last 50 years. Almost all the things we used a generation or so ago are now museum items. In our student days, being in the college of Architecture or Engineering, one of the items we carried to the university which was very visible to everyone was the slide rule. I am sure the younger ones don’t know what I am talking about. How about the simple fountain pen? It used to be the most popular or common presents from the parents for their graduating elementary students before they step into high school. Again, that is one item that is gone.

The list goes on and on. Typewriters are no longer produced. Have you heard about “onion skin” paper or “carbon” paper? Can you buy typewriter ribbons? What about the old vinyl musical records or the cassette tapes? What is a Walkman? What we hear today are the products of called i-things. And I don’t know how to operate most of them. I must be a man from the ancient time.

Even the not so old VHS video players have vanished. About ten years ago, almost every other corner was a video rental shop. They quickly converted into DVDs. And now they are all gone. Time now for those downloads and hard drives. And Hollywood is complaining about piracy and musical stars are coming to town in short intervals for live concerts to make money as their CDs are not selling anymore.

The landline phone networks are shrinking while the cell phone networks are expanding exponentially. Remember we used to say “dial” this number? Not anymore as all phones are now push button ones. Remember the telegram and the Morse code? The young people today have no idea at all how we sent messages in those days and the agony or ecstasy of receiving one.

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