When MSC occupied the 4^th floor of the La Suerte building, there needed to be another venue to accommodate the “overflow”  students from MSC Main (as what the students used to call MSC – La Suerte).  What MSC found was the old building along Artemio Fule St. (upper Lopez Jaena) which used to be Agrix Supermarket.  This new site was christened MSC Annex or simply Annex.

MSC Annex building

Other equipment which could not be put in the fourth floor of La Suerte were placed at the annex.  Equipped with one room each for typing and drafting a workshop, two classrooms and a music room.  Annex housed the work area for highly-specialized courses like Autocad, a course specially suited for engineers, architects, drafting designers and others whose occupation involve drawing or designing of some kind.

By then everybody knew that MSC was already offering a course for Computer Technicians.  Student technicians were trained  to open up the computer’s housing, poke around the motherboard and shake their heads knowingly while making tsk, tsk… sounds.

For these guys, the Service Center served as the laboratory for hands-on training.  Annex had a workshop, and repair jobs from outside accepted here, where MSC technicians looked through them (replace parts if necessary).

That is why when your computer conked out, it was the MSC Annex you should visit.  It was not called the Service Center for nothing.  If you were having problems running your CPUs, hard drives, dot matrix or laser printer, fax machines or even simple electronic appliances from microwaves to your mother’s hair dryer, the Service Center was the “go-to” place for these things, much like  a cosmetic surgery clinic was to celebrities.  They even did house calls, sometimes just for “pancit.”

MSC Annex was a fun place to work in!