Anderston Centre

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Postby HollowHorn » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:07 pm

Alex Glass wrote:Were they that dear? :) :) :)

Arf arf. :D
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Postby TommyDGNR8 » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:07 pm

You may laugh, but they bloody were!

Cyclo's typo was probably his subconscious crying out.

I remember taking my VIC-20 power pack (just a 12v(?) transformer at the end of the day) to get fixed. They wanted about £50 for the repair.

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Postby Apollo » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:05 am

Alex Glass wrote:
Cyclo2000 wrote: Back in the late seventies we used to take 'em to Robox to get done.

Were they that dear? :) :) :)

Four function calculator was in the region of £70 in the 1970s (and remember, that was a 1970s £70!).

Scientific calculators were in the region of £120, or as much over that as you could afford, and nothing programmable until we hit the 1980s. Even then, 100 steps was doing well.

I bought a 'cheap' scientific recently for about £15.

And remember, there were no PC's then, and the spreadsheet was only a glint some programmer's eye.

The Hewlett Packard HP41 probably outclassed any of the "Personal Computers" around at the same time, but at around £300 base price (I think) was out of mortal price range for such a "toy", although all the Space Shuttle astronauts were equipped with one, and even had to use it for re-entry calculations on one mission, when the main computer had a bad turn.
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby maccoinnich » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:39 pm

Anyone know if the rest of the bus station shots in Restless Natives are Anderston Bus Station? I suspect so, particularly from the reflections in the last photo, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't Edinburgh's old bus station:

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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Fossil » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:54 pm

It is The Anderson Bus Station
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby maccoinnich » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:38 pm

Thanks.
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Vinegar Tom » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:55 pm

Is the Princes Street sign a prop?

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Without the sign I would say Anderson , but I have cloudy memories of the Edinburgh station looking very similar?
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Josef » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:09 pm

It looks unmistakably Anderson Bus Station to me, with the one proviso that I can't remember what the blue and white building behind the bus in the second last photo (roughly where the MoD building would be now) could have been.
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Squigster » Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:49 pm

Definelty the Anderson Centre. A girl at my school was famous because she could be seen in the background swinging a carrier bag.
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Lucky Poet » Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:31 pm

Certainly not the old Edinburgh one - it was a lot more dingy, and the platforms were open-ended, or run-through or whatever you'd call them. Apart from the ShittyLink bit, which was open-air and had no platforms at all. And it had a John Menzies, but it wasn't a proper shop, more of a big booth thing. I'm somehow feeling nostalgic for the auld coup now...
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby onyirtodd » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:47 am

Lucky Poet wrote:Certainly not the old Edinburgh one - it was a lot more dingy, and the platforms were open-ended, or run-through or whatever you'd call them. Apart from the ShittyLink bit, which was open-air and had no platforms at all. And it had a John Menzies, but it wasn't a proper shop, more of a big booth thing. I'm somehow feeling nostalgic for the auld coup now...


That's exactly how I remember St Andrew's Sq bus station.
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby neilmc » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:35 pm

The vision, only half-realised:-

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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Fossil » Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:40 pm

neilmc wrote:The vision, only half-realised:-

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http://www.futureglasgow.co.uk (under 'Mixed Use' - can't link direct).


thank fuck for that :D
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby Sir Roger DeLodgerley » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:57 am

Would that be Bothwell Circus at the top-right(ish)?
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Re: Anderston Centre

Postby mrsam » Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:01 pm

Used to work for the wellknown hotel people based in the centre. What a wierd time warp /rabit waren / place.

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