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why was it called pc tubes?

crap name for a gaming shop...

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I presume you mean PV Tubes. It wasn't actually the name given to a gaming shop, the business already existed selling tv spare parts etc.

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PV tubes *L*
so tubes i guess refers to the tv...pv must've been the owner?

why did they shut down?

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The Owner was a guy called Brian Cutnel Mani, his father in law lived opposite me for many years, don't know why they shut down

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if your refering to pv tubes across from the tesco in accy then that buisness originated nearer to town center but i cant think of the name of the street

i went to school with a lad called david wood and his dad if i remember correctly was at one point the owner or joint owner if i am remembering correctly

i remember going in and been amazed by a jpg picture of a ferrari on an amiga system because up until the amiga we only had amstrad , commodore and spectrums and none of them could display a jpg or anything close to one

i do remeber a side door which led to a seperate part of the buisness that sold stuff like tv componments and starter motors for flourecant tubes etc so that would explain the tubes part of the name

maybe p.v stands for polly vinal or somat :)

lol i just remembered that they used to sell sinclair c5's and had one on display outside for a while

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Brian was the owner when I knew them ( it's actually Cucknell ). I suppose the development of the throw away age meant tv's weren't fixed as much, although they did used to supply a lot of aerials as well. Not sure why they closed down.

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lol looks like the lad i went to school with was either a liar or the buisness was sold to cucknell or vice versa , i know his dad definatly had somat to do with the place because he always had the latest gear and atualy had acess to a c5 for a while

this was the 80s though it may have changed hands a few times

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beyond caring now its time to go get drunk :D

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As I've said a few times dave spelling is not my strong suit, as soon as you printed the right name I remembered it. I seem to remember Ben, his wifes father saying something but I can't remember what it was. I knew Brian from back in the late sixties when he played football for Ossy Immanuel, but haven't seen him for years

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Wasn't Brians wife called Sheila ? Very much a family business in those days. They had a daughter called Dawn who I remember well, nice girl, not sure if there were any other kids involved. I spoke to Chris, one of the lads who used to work in the shop a couple of years ago, and I may be wrong but I have a vague memory he told me Brian actually sold up and moved away.

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PV Tubes was in the old Red Lion Inn on the corner of Abbey St and Black Abbey St, I used the shop quite a lot for electronic components. They sold every thing related to TV, except the television, aerials rigging kits, masts, coax cable, transistors, resistors, capacitors, you name it they had it. The shop marnita where Smiths shoe shop was, is still running they appeared to be part of the same business at one time.

Before PV Tubes moved into the premises, a firm of tyre fitters used the building, had a big tractor tyre outside, bloke got killed there
when a tyre he ws inflating exploded.

Retlaw.

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Brian originally worked for Ken Clegg on Bull Bridge.

Fancied him when I was a young teenager, .. mainly because he was a good bopper, and good pull (on the rhythm of course), lived on Monk Street. Went off him when he trapped with my best friend .. LOL. Sorta' worked with his wife when I went back to Hilden .. terrific lady.

Moved up Cumbria.

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Posted via Mobile Deviceit was originally on water street back when zx81s where new. A lad i went to school with also worked there. He was called lee braithwaite and moved to america

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Ya dave his wife was called Sheila, she had a sister called Christine who still lives in Ossy, like Kate says they moved away, whether he was still with his wife or not I don't know, Seem to remember Ben, her father, saying they were going through a rough patch at one time, because she stayed with him for a short time, but thats quite a few years ago

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thats the place that used to be " Marnita" then it was owned by Arnold whose wife had " Ednas" cafe on abbey st, lower than the canine in the 60s, a lovely couple, friends of mine way back, arnold used to sell/hire gaming machines n pin tables etc, when he first opened.;)

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Can remember it being Marnita cashy from the days when I went to the tech, can remember the cafe as well, used to go in for dinner, always had Spotted Dick for sweet:D

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i was always in the back room playing the pin tables, Maureen, Christine @ Edna used to work the cafe.;)

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Its surprises me cashy, in the old days there were lots of good cafes where you coul get a deceant dinner Like Warner Street, Chippy on Plantation Street, Chippy on Blackburn Road opposite Platts, supose the all went to the wall when pubs started doing lunches:(

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Before Abbey street PV Tubes used to be on Water street, where the Fell and Mountain shop is now. David Wood used to be something to do with it, he used to be our telly repair man. Tellys always seemed to breakdown in the 70s and 80s. They were the first place to start selling computers when it started getting popular in the early 80s.

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I actually bought my first pc there, well word processor in 1993, it was an Amstrad, swapped it two years later for a pc. What ever did we do before the PC :confused:

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When I was 12 or 13 I had my VIC 20 controlling all sorts of things via relays and motors. Just cause we didn't have PCs didn't mean we couldn't do stuff with computers. I seem to recall Kipax was an amiga fiend as well.

Computers didn't start with the PC you know!

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I used to love that shop :D I used to spend hours in there as I was at college (doing computers) up at Accy and Rossendale, though this is back in 1995-7. Cant remember the name of the chap there at the time as well which is quite annoying (big chap with short light brown hair). Used to go in with MacDonald's breakfasts of a morning before college and talk computers. I remember all the old amiga games they used to have and actually got my first printer there as well - a colour dot matrix printer, Citizen ABC - used to take about 15 minutes to print a page out and the paper looked like it had been hammered afterwards :cool:

I thought it was an ace shop - the likes of PC world just cant come close!

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The chap you mention I believe was Lee Braithwaite. As mentioned before I went to school with Lee.

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Well ya I agree entwisi, I had a Spectrum in the 80s, they weren't much cop though, when I said computer I didn't take the Spectrum into account

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they could do far more than 99% of users knew how. Most people just hit Shift return to load a game from tape. As I said, my VIC 20 did all sorts of things due to me hacking into it and understanding how I could control things.

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Lee - that was his name! Cant believe I forgot it in the first place as I pretty much lived in that shop throughougt college!!!

I had a spectrum (in fact I still have it) 128k +2 with the built in tape deck. I used to spend hours learning "basic" which stood me in good stead later on for Pascal/C++ :cool:

Speaking of the old faithfull Speccy - if anyone has favourite games that they remember, most of them are now available to play online through an internet browser - my favourite game ever is still going and has been taken on as a freeware project, Chaos Battle of the Wizards - best game ever!

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Lee moved to America and wed someone he met on the Internet as I recall.

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You're not wrong there entwisi, I had a friend who was a keen gardener and loved his spectrum, he designed his own program and hardware to monitor his three green houses, for temperature, humidity and automatic watering of his plants when he was away at flower shows or on holiday.

http://www.flowerchat.com/forums/ima...flowerface.gif

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Omg:o hehehehe, my dad still has the spectrum 48k rubber keys [i hope he does hehe] & we had the 128k with tape deck tho given away to a relative i think. Tho to my pleasure the psp has a compilation games of the th'owd spectrum, which my daughter got for xmas [tho i played on it more hahaha] which has river raid & river raid 2.... i used to be good at that one tho a lot easier with a joy stick as a fair few other games, i soon remembered how cool they were, tho without the fun of the screeching tape loading that took upto 20mins & a pain at last min for failing to load after all that hehehe.

My other favs sadly not on that compilation was jet set willy, manic minor & paperboy, paperboy being my fav for trashing a few windows ..... would love another go tho havent found it on the net yet.

Still cant beat the orange atari game of tennis tho :D [wonder if that is still in me dads collection somewhere:rolleyes:

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there are loads of spectrum emulators for your PC anmd quite a few that run them in flash on web pages

http://www.ellosnuncaloharian.com/on...anicminer.html is one

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dan_ric..._uk/JSWII.html

just googling wil quickly sort you out

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Here you go - just for you!!! http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infos...cgi?id=0003603 :D:D:D

If you go to worldofspectrum.org and click on the 'archive' section you will see you can select 'games' and then just browse through to find what you're after - if you scroll down once you've selected a game you can see you can play it in your browser using a Java plugin which most browsers will have anyway. Not quite the same of sticking the tape in and going to make a brew for 10 minutes whislt the TV screams at you with those weird blue and yellow lines but hey....:cool:

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Don't you just miss those weird lines Mike, not:D