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Shreve Systems is Dead and Going

Posted by pudge on from the putting-a-(low)-price-on-memories dept.

perfessor multigeek writes "Since back in '78, Shreve Systems has been the funkiest aftermarket source of Apple stuff. Well, not anymore. They're going out of business right now and any folks looking for hundred-dollar working laptops (with bag and Works), ABD keyboards for a fiver, or Mac Plus supplies, better get over there soonest." You could start your own online store with what you could buy over there.

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  1. Re:Too Late! by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the powerbooks though.

  2. not worth it by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Informative

    The PowerBooks they're showing most prominently on their page are 5300's. Anybody who's ever owned one can tell you that these are far and away the worst laptops Apple ever made. They're bulky, hot, and they were even slow by the standards of their day.

    I wouldn't wish this laptop on my worst enemy, even for $199. They should be paying people to haul their 5300's away.

    It's not entirely clear how that $199 price applies to the PowerBook shown, anyway. Their price list shows the original PowerBooks-- the 100 and 140-- for $199, but the 5300's are $450 and up. At that price, they're definitely not worth it.

    And check out their prices for the 3400's-- nearly a thousand bucks for a laptop with 16 MB of RAM and a 3 GB hard drive! Considering that you can get a brand new iBook for just a few dollars over that, these prices make no sense at all.

    I'll be sorry to see Shreve Systems go, but at these prices, I honestly hope they don't get any takers.

    --

    I write in my journal
  3. Poor Poster by analog_line · · Score: 3, Informative

    You obviously haven't been a Mac user too long, or have been living in a cave.

    Shreve Systems was selling refurbished Macs for almost as long as I've used them. I still have an old Quadra 610 pizza box that was my first computer (like, only mine, not the family computer). My dad bought almost every pre-G# Mac he ever owned or specced from Shreve. For the Mac user without the deep pockets or with a frugal streak back in the day, they were the only place to look for equipment. Even these days, you never know when you're going to need to replace parts on someone's old PowerMac or need an AppleTalk card for an ImageWriter, and Shreve were the guys to talk to. Now that source has dried up.

  4. Re:Poor Story by MrChuck · · Score: 4, Informative
    Then you are no geek and should go Here for your news .

    I still have a (working) floppy drive that I got from them in my (working) Apple ][.

    Hmm, wonder if they have Z80 cards (for the new ][e I just got to complement the ][+) in that liquidation sale...

    Until you've managed to slice off 20 bytes from your code to make it run quicker, you have no place calling yourself a software hacker.

    Now, trivia question: What's the memory location (in hex) that contained the current pixel being drawn? (and a note, in 20 some years, I forget too).
    (useful so you don't get snow by writing to video RAM while it's being displayed)

    You kids with your gigabytes. Any application larger than 48k is a waste of space.

    So, anyone got IPv6 running on the 6502 or 65802 upgrade?