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Sega SC-5000 (SC-3000H proto?) + Prototype Sega Printer
Post Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:59 pm
Last edited by Bock on Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:33 am; edited 2 times in total
I have no idea what is this:


From Enri's homepage:
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/~haf09260/Cg/EnrCg.htm

It just says:
ちなみに写真はセガのSC-5000です。

Which badly translate to:
Here is a photograph of Sega SC-5000.
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Found one other mention of it
Post Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:47 am
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> I have no ******* idea what is this:
>

> From this page:
> http://www2.odn.ne.jp/~haf09260/Cg/EnrCg.htm

> It just says:
> ちなみに写真はセガのSC-5000です。

> Which badly translate to:
> Here is a photograph of Sega SC-5000.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/odyssey/world/q100.html

"The ultimate uknowns about Japanese classic videogames"
"存在されると言われている、謎のSC-5000の詳細を述べよ"
Very rough translation: "[Can anyone] give details of the SC-5000 , a mystery said to exist."

It seems nobody knows about it :P It doesn't help that there are a million other things with the product code "SC 5000".

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A bit more info.
Post Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:27 pm
Apparently it was made to match power with NEC's PC-8801 computers. Why they would want to match that instead of say, the PC-98 series, or just make something that is a computer more along the lines of the soon-to-be released SEGA Mark III (though one could argue that would be too close to the MSX2 in some ways). I see an issue with SEGA's computers is they typically seemed to be clones of already existing computers on the market, like the MSX1 especially, along with the Sord m5. This, especially the MSX-standard, kinda dashed their hopes of having a unified console standard.

At least the SC-3000 performed well in Oceania and some parts of Europe.
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:18 am
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Apparently it was made to match power with NEC's PC-8801 computers. Why they would want to match that instead of say, the PC-98 series, or just make something that is a computer more along the lines of the soon-to-be released SEGA Mark III (though one could argue that would be too close to the MSX2 in some ways). I see an issue with SEGA's computers is they typically seemed to be clones of already existing computers on the market, like the MSX1 especially, along with the Sord m5. This, especially the MSX-standard, kinda dashed their hopes of having a unified console standard.

At least the SC-3000 performed well in Oceania and some parts of Europe.


PC-98 was a 16-bit ¥300,000 computer. SC-3000 was an 8-bit ¥30,000 computer which could play Sega arcade games. I think PC-88 was about ¥100,000. I think it's unfair to call the SC-3000 a clone of other computers of the time, they all just used the best value for money CPU (Z80), and best value for money VDP (TMS9918), with their own variations of sound chips, RAM and other hardware.

Sega's other computer from that era, the Sega AI computer doesn't seem to be a clone of anything. I guess you might call the Teradrive an IBM PC clone, but the same could be said of PC-98.

Sorry, nothing to add about SC-5000 specifically, just felt the need to sign up to correct what I considered to be a misconception about Sega computers in general.
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Yeah, I guess I was a bit odd.
Post Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:25 am
Yeah. Shame the SEGA AI computer did not catch on. I hear an English-language prototype was made, but never released. The AI computer was actually the first of its kind. Had it caught on, perhaps we could be living in a very different world when it comes to computers.
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:17 am
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Had it caught on, perhaps we could be living in a very different world when it comes to computers.

LOL that's quite a stretch, it was designed and sold as an educational machine; I don't think something like this would've ever caught on with businesses or the general public.
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:29 am
What exactly did the AI Computer do?
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Post Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2022 12:09 am
Thanks to Gaming Alexandria who scanned the July 1983 issue of Technopolis we have the original article from where it was shown at a late May 1983 show. Also pictured is a prototype printer for SC-3000. I wonder if the SC-5000 was really just a prototype SC-3000H.



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Post Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:31 am
Great find, attaching the full page here.

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