Another vintage computer news story

[TV-Guy]

I'm the tv guy from Phoenix. You may have seen the other computer news story from 1983 I posted on http://www.azcentral.com/video/video_index.html

Hey, I just noticed that story isn't up anymore...I'll put it back tomorrow.

ANYWAY...this week or next, I will be putting up a story from 1983 about one of the first computer repair shops in Phoenix. It shows cool '80s computers...and the diagnostic equiptment used to repair them.

My question to you vintage computer guys, the computer repair company is, "Sorbus." Do you guys know anything about them. I think they are...or were a nation wide company.

Thanks,

 

[DarthKur]

The "Basement Tape" on Compact Disc's is great. I wonder if it was more wishful thinking on the record manufacturing representative when he stated that cd's surely wouldn't replace lp's in our lifetime.

 

[TV-Guy]

Basement Tapes-The Compact Disc

Basement Tapes-The Compact Disc

DarthKur-
The Compact Disc Basement Tape is one of my all time favorites! The other line I love in that piece is, "These things are small enough and durable enough, that I bet someone is trying to figure out how to get these things to play in your car."

 

[Druid6900]

My question to you vintage computer guys, the computer repair company is, "Sorbus." Do you guys know anything about them. I think they are...or were a nation wide company.

Thanks,

Well, I ran computer repair businesses for about 30 years before retiring to repairing Vintage stuff almost exclusively and we had contacts with major repair chains all over North America (they could get parts we needed and we fixed stuff they weren't equipped to handle, so, it worked out nicely) and Sorbus does not ring a bell at all.

 

[barythrin]

Well, doing a minor amount of digging this article (from 1989 talking about poor little Baby Bell) says they just acquired some of the European divisions of Sorbus (and mention they're a computer maintenance company in several countries). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...3A25751C1A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

This link (http://books.google.com/books?id=-1...VelppH1&sig=pFOMmmv0mNVrP1bU5xfDn0BYTRg&hl=en) refers to a repair/fix-it shop called "Sorbus Service Inc." which may also be their proper name.

The direct answer is no I haven't heard of them but I wasn't needing PC repair at that time.

- John

 

[TV-Guy]

Thanks Barythrin, Yeah...I found the same articles as you...just thought maybe someone had some first hand knowlege of Sorbus.

Hey, I put my other vintage computer story back online.

http://www.azcentral.com/video/video_index.html

The computer repair story will go up around March 20th, but I'll post a reminder when it actually goes up.

 

[DarthKur]

.....Hey, I put my other vintage computer story back online.

http://www.azcentral.com/video/video_index.html

That was beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed that. It's like watching an old movie and looking at all of the cars that were then brand new. I just get a thrill seeing all of those wonderful computers there fresh out of their packaging. It brings the excitement and newness of it all back to me that I felt back in 83, oddly enough the same year I got my TI99/4A. What is even better is that I now own just about everything I seen on there. :D
Still don't have an IBM 5150 or 5160 though and it's killing me.

 

[barythrin]

Yeah I guess I should have assumed you'd do the simple google search as well. You probably also noticed that there were one or two LinkedIn profiles of people who worked for them that you could try to ask them something if you were hunting for anything specific.

- John