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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. Prices. by Daleks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No wonder these guys went out of business. Look at the prices for refurbished 6-7+ year old machines. If these are actually market prices, anyone want an 9500/180MP 128/4GB/4x CD-ROM/ATI Nexus 128 for $1200? Funny you can find nearly the same thing on eBay for $45.

  2. I'm Surprised They Held Out This Long by WatertonMan · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It is sad they disappeared. They were often a great source to find odds and ends for older systems. For folks like computer unsavy older people, older Macs worked great. Most of them never use the Internet and just need simple word processing.

    Having said all that though with eBay getting bigger and bigger it is often cheaper to find legacy machines there. Any business that depended upon legacy machines and legacy parts either would go out of business or just end up marketing with eBay. But it would be hard to keep the margins if you weren't buying large stocks of those parts.