£19,000.00 Sega Computer

[sniperCCJVQ]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=8108333075

[Gamereviewgod]

Holy mother of crap! Anyone know anything about this one? It seems pretty cool, but that's a wee bit out of my price range.

[number6]

Well it is basically useless if there is no software developed for it. Even more troubling is that SEGA knows nothing about this system. If no one in this community knows anything about this system I doubt it is worth anything. Knowing nothing about it myself I would say it is worth no more than a few hundred dollars as a prototype system.

[hydr0x]

here's some info about this item:

http://assembler.roarvgm.com/ai_8300.html

[Vroomfunkel]

Wow ... very very interesting stuff!! However I seriously doubt that it is worth anything like £19,000

My feeling is that someone might pay £1000 - £2000 max for this, but I can't see anyone paying over that - especially since it is unboxed. But perhaps I'm wrong on that ...

Vroomfunkel

[mycarsucks]

aaaaaaaaaa

[thegreatescape]

Anyone else had a look at the VF: LE and x-box games auctions..

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=8108671865

update soon

x_x

The AI certainly looks interestingly cool, though 19k is a (hell of a) lot for whats effectively a very large paperweight.

[TNTPLUST]

One thing I have learned in collecting is marketing is key. Here is a person who has a very rare item but there is little intrest in it. He did step one - Made a website. Now he moves to Step two - Offers it on ebay. While I'm sure he wouldn't mind selling it for that price I doubt he truly wants to get rid of it. Slowly he is cultivating intrest in it....who knows someday he might find a buyer...if not he still gets to showoff a rare piece of his collection. What would be the listing cost of this item?

[kattkatt]

Once saw one on a Japanese auction. Went for 20000 yen (approx $200)

Forget it!

/C

[tholly]

i cant see that one selling.....im sure we will see this one relisted...

[c2000]

Hmm if it was like $900 I'd bid..maybe..for this price I could buy the entire SMS, SAturn PAL , 32x , Dreamcast PAL & MegaCD line-up. (and more)

[Duncan]

If this is a serious development PC, why does it have no provision for a heavy-duty CRT monitor (and why did they even bother to include an RF output, of all things)?

Also, I'd think that any storage media would be a choice left to the end user, not something embedded into the unit like a tape drive. (Regardless of what the web site's owner says, tape drives were not fast for 1987 - I'd want something like a small hard drive or even a CD-ROM unit.)

It would be nice if he'd scan the rest of the documentation he's got, as it would probably make things somewhat clearer (or at least add more info to the pile). Until then, I'm tempted to think it's not much more than a hyped-up MSX machine with a unique OS.

Interesting, nonetheless, but probably not worth $47,000.