T.O

Technical Obsoloscence

You are an oldie if you have used the following:

• Blackboard
• Carbon paper
• Chalk
• Eraser
• Exercise Book
• Ferrite Core Memory
• Floppy Disk
• Gestener
• Punched Card
• Punched Paper Tape
• Rotary Phone
• Slate
• Slide rule
• Telephone Kiosk
• Typewriter
• Vinyl Record

Some are on display in museums and at vintage fairs.

Bookshops

During our school days, SPHS has its own book shop.

Later, we bought books from Ava House and the RIT Book shop. The official exchange rate was five kyats to a US Dollar. For books, the price was converted using six kyats to a Dollar.

Exercise Books

The exercise books are available in different sizes. They range from 40 pages to 200 pages.

An exercise book with 80 pages costs around 50 pyas.

The exercise book brought over to the US by Ko Benny Tan (M70) shows

• the badges of the Universities and Institutes under the then New Education System
• the badge of Trade Corporation (9) Rangoon
• Ko Benny’s other names
• subject name.

Inside the book is the calligraphy of Angelina Tan (his personal copier and sweet heart),

The exercise book was put on display at SPZP-2000.

Ko Benny was a Golden Sponsor, designer of mementos and co-Chair of the Working Committee for SPZP-2000.