A victim of the first Tech Bubble, I recall. Shame that it fell on it's arse, we used to have cable TV now we have a town scape uglified by Sky dishes. And we pay through the nose for this.
Aberdonian here - A “Torry Loon” in fact, lived down in West Sussex for nearly 10 Years now. Came across your channel today and i love your videos, a comforting watch to say the least, makes home seem not that far away now! Keep up the good work😊 Also - Love that you soundtracked this with the “Most Mysterious Song On The Internet” AKA Like The Wind (I’m a huge fan of Justin Whang’s been following this mystery for years now!)
Thanks @AllyJB! I wondered if anyone would get the reference - it had become quite the earworm for me while I was conceptualising this video and wanted to see if I could include it. It seemed to fit well with the 80s period that Aberdeen Cable began in. You might find the music at the end of the previous video familiar too
@@duthies I grew up with Aberdeen Cable, The Children’s Channel, MTV & Nickelodeon were always my go to channels as a kid, so Like The Wind really does fit with the nostalgic feel of the topic, it really is a great tune! Also i worked at Atlantic (the office i remember was further up Union Street, near the old Waterstones) for a total of two weeks before it went under, it was an absolute mess of a situation and one id happily never like to experience again! Ill check out the other video and let you know if i do recognise the other song! EDIT I heard it! Very well done, was this your own doing?
@@AllySay cheers! Yeah most of the music on this channel is my own reworking of some music or other, helps avoid copyright strikes. Mostly from the “16 bit” era of computer games, it’s fun seeing when people pick up on the references!
I remember them well. One of their biggest problems were many customers were ex BT users due to being cut off due to non payment. Hence they taking on a fare share of difficult customers.
That’s very interesting and makes a lot of sense! I couldn’t find comprehensive pricing but it looks like they were positioning themselves as a cheaper alternative.
Down here in Glasgow they were very common, and you could still see the mountings for the base station aerial masts on a lot of the high flats - and lots of rawlbolt holes where the transmission equipment had been. They were connected together with microwave links to a site in the centre of Glasgow. I took a load of them down from various buildings and gutted them to use the antenna for wifi links on 2.4GHz.
There was one on the flat I moved into in Great Northern Road in 2002. I remember we cut the cable outside so we could remove all the bits inside. As far as I can remember, said bits were still on a shelf in the hall cupboard when I moved nearly four years ago!
I remixed it so yes, I did know it :) It was added in my last edit and I forgot to update my sources but haven’t been back on a computer to rectify yet - well spotted! Just updated - looks like I forgot to credit the outro music too - cheers!
Certainly not currently as they went bankrupt in 2001. Just did a spot of reading as I’ve always wanted to know more about that myself. It’s part of the microwave links that form the backbone for television (it’s not a TV transmitter) and telephony signals - it has links with the main Aberdeen telephone exchange, Durris and Mormond Hill for example. Like most transmitter sites, it’s not used for just one purpose - various companies such as cell network providers for mobile phones and private communications will also have equipment installed up there. I wouldn’t like to guess whether Atlantic had any equipment up there or not. More reading: www.dgsys.co.uk/btmicrowave/sites/33.php
