The 70's Thread - Anything until the Dec 1979.

[chonburifc]

What about the logarithm tables?

Hehehe. That's the "log book" I was talking about before calculators came in. "Log books" were allowed during test and exams but useless to me cos' I don't know how to use it effectively. By the time I found the answer, the invigilator said "Pens down, no more writing................"

 

[chonburifc]

ah...the book was deadweight then bro

Yeah, life as student was tough then, many have to tear pages of the history text book and smuggled the torn pages. I did not study hard so have to hid the text book inside my pants. :p

 

[kingrant]

Yea, then there was the anti-log stuff that drove us nuts..luckily slide rules came along, after that, HP calculators that could be programmed..

Hehehe. That's the "log book" I was talking about before calculators came in. "Log books" were allowed during test and exams but useless to me cos' I don't know how to use it effectively. By the time I found the answer, the invigilator said "Pens down, no more writing................"

 

[erection2015]

hahaha its ok la bro...i too had poor exam discipline....if you know what i mean.

Yeah, life as student was tough then, many have to tear pages of the history text book and smuggled the torn pages. I did not study hard so have to hid the text book inside my pants. :p

 

[Narong Wongwan]

If I remember correctly, one of the better imitation is call Cubic or Cubix. And during the early days, pirated software can be obtained in People's Park Complex.

Cubic99 was one of sim wong hoo's first foray into IT.
There were also the taiwan's pineapples and oranges.

 

[chonburifc]

hahaha its ok la bro...i too had poor exam discipline....if you know what i mean.

Recalling those days, it's actually quite fun. Test and exam supposed to be very quiet but many activities took place. Even have throwing crumbled paper with answer across the classroom. Kaki was too excited so did not aim properly and land on wrong spot. knn, another classmate 'kio dio'.

 

[chonburifc]

Cubic99 was one of sim wong hoo's first foray into IT.
There were also the taiwan's pineapples and oranges.

Yes, bro. It's Cubic 99. I remember memory during that time is 16Kb or 32Kb. When buying memories, have to buy in one long transparent tube of IC chips.Think the diskette is 5x5 inches big and storage is 360KB per diskette.

 

[erection2015]

ya but a lot also depended on which teachers were doing the invigilating. Kena strict one then lan lan lor.

Recalling those days, it's actually quite fun. Test and exam supposed to be very quiet but many activities took place. Even have throwing crumbled paper with answer across the classroom. Kaki was too excited so did not aim properly and land on wrong spot. knn, another classmate 'kio dio'.

 

[scroobal]

Toys:

Anyone remember - Pogo sticks, coca-cola yoyos black version the most expensive, the weekly contest at MPH etc, Mastermind, Risk,

 

[yinyang]

Smuggled soft porn books like Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover (lit, no?) in brown paper innocuously labeled on cover as Tom Sawyer's Adventures.

VHS tapes were our intro to porn (lousy quality). Deep Throat etc. Until mould rendered tapes unviewable.

 

[kingrant]

Those were also the halcyon days of Henry Miller too - tropic of cancer, tropic of capricorn.

 

[chonburifc]

Smuggled soft porn books like Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover (lit, no?) in brown paper innocuously labeled on cover as Tom Sawyer's Adventures.

VHS tapes were our intro to porn (lousy quality). Deep Throat etc. Until mould rendered tapes unviewable.

Porn tapes during that time is known as "Blue Film". Any idea why it's blue and not other colors?

 

[kingrant]

Then I started reading vociferously Masters and Johnson's Human Sexuality Response, Joy of Sex by ??, Playboy, Penthouse..

Smuggled soft porn books like Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover (lit, no?) in brown paper innocuously labeled on cover as Tom Sawyer's Adventures.

VHS tapes were our intro to porn (lousy quality). Deep Throat etc. Until mould rendered tapes unviewable.

 

[kingrant]

Same no reason why they called it yellow culture and purple prose,bro.

Porn tapes during that time is known as "Blue Film". Any idea why it's blue and not other colors?

 

[Fishypie]

Getting invited to 'functions' at friends' b'days.GirLs seated neatLy on a row of chairs, and the guys opposite..aLL
awaiting for that 1st move.You wiLL tag your buddy aLong to go over and 'excuse' the girLs of your pick for dance.
Knn, at Last your friend got his, and your choice pick rejected you !..then you LL go back to where your seat was.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Smuggled soft porn books like Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover (lit, no?) in brown paper innocuously labeled on cover as Tom Sawyer's Adventures.

VHS tapes were our intro to porn (lousy quality). Deep Throat etc. Until mould rendered tapes unviewable.

Sex boat, Emmanuel for blue films....literature is penthouse forum letters in paperback that was sold in MPH

 

[verlioux]

Sex boat, Emmanuel for blue films....literature is penthouse forum letters in paperback that was sold in MPH

Also got Electric Blue, think it was a british soft porn series

In late 70s/early 80s there was a video shop in Coronation Plaza which rented normal movies in the front, but at the back...

 

[yinyang]

GirLs seated neatLy on a row of chairs, and the guys opposite..aLL
awaiting for that 1st move.You wiLL tag your buddy aLong to go over and 'excuse' the girLs of your pick for dance. Knn, at Last your friend got his, and your choice pick rejected you !.

Blokes try to look macho 1 end, some with ciggies (actually trying to rev up guts):o

Controlled the guy doing the music (cassettes or vinyl?), play slooooow songs to have chance for 'grab'. Alas, gals got wise up and taichi. Once, after fast song played ...whilst waiting for our que to rubba, gals did a runner kns. So us blokes adjourned to Bugis St to drown our sorrows in Tiger beers (actually more fun!)

 

[looneytan]

And slide rules?

ya, man _ slide rule ( pain in the ass )

wonder they are still using this nowaday

 

[Merl Haggard]

Anyone remember the body in the chest story that came our circa 1977.

British Referigeration expert and expat murdered his Thai wife in one of the hotel in Orchard Road. He cut her up and placed her parts in a chest and sealed it airtight due to his background. Subsequently when he found permannent accommodation he took the chest with him and kept it in his home. He raised his only son by himself and told relatives the wife had run away.

Years later, when he was on his death bed in SGH, he told his son who then called the Police and they found the body parts in the chest in their home in Cairnhill.

The American, a refrigeration expert killed his Thai wife at the Hilton hotel, chopped her up into pieces and moved them to his apartment on the 6th floor of Cairnhill Court
which he rented from the GM of Hilton hotel, the late Mr Lim Ewe Hin.

Poor Ewe Hin got to know him as a long staying guest of the Hilton hotel and was happy to rent to him his Cairnhill Court apartment.

He summoned his son who was living in the USA to his deathbed in Melbourne and confessed the killing of his Thai wife and concealing her body parts in a chest in Cairnhill
Court. After his funeral in Melbourne his son came back to S'pore to report to the police and according to the Pinoy maid she was surprised that there was not stench of smell
during the 5 years she worked for him.

After the discovery of this gruesome murder, poor Ewe Hin couldn't sell nor rent out the apartment for about 8 years and eventually had to sell it to an Indonesian for $290,000
in the late 80's.

In 2003 Cairnhill Court was sold en-bloc to Li Ka Shing and each owner collected $4m.