The $10,000 question
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, North America. Tagged with Dreamcast, Fan Stuff.
The question? How much would you pay to be the proud owner of one of the (very) few Sega Dreamcast Zip Drives?
Well, for the pricey sum of $10,000, you too could be the proud owner of this fine piece of hardware!
For any really enthusiastic Dreamcast fans or any rich bastards people who can happily afford to lay down this kind of cheddar, go and check out the eBay sale.
For those that don’t know, the Dreamcast’s Zip Drive was to be an external attachment for the system, which offered extra data storage for game saves and potential downloads. The Zip Drive was set to take special 1Gb Zip disks (the most common Zip disks held about 250MB at the time). But the attachment, like so many other great things, was canned when Sega decided to drop out of the hardware race.
Better try and save up the pennies fast, or maybe set up a charity event in aid of D.D.F. (Desperate Dreamcast Fans) to be in the running for this rare collector’s item.
[Source: eBay, VIA DCEmu]
Comments on this article
There have been 7 responses to this article.
I remember Zip drives.
I had a buncha 100meg disks and a few drives.
I even had a drive go bad and start killing my disks.
Wich then with those disks would kill my other drives.
Woulda been nice to see on the dreamcast, but wouldnt a VMU with a gig of space make more sence? Expensive, but hey, woulda made sense with that MP3 VMU that was never made.
So this thing is really just for collection eh?
I mean, what software could actually use the darn thing?
Meh, I dont think I could care about this thing.
Now unreleased mega VMUs, thats another story :3
Loved those things.
shadow1w2
Posted September 13th, 2007 at 3:32 pm.
just a heads up
common zip disks are 100/250MB
I have never come across any on the market bigger, iomega did bring out Jazz drives though.
peck_ed
Posted September 13th, 2007 at 4:37 pm.
Ummmm, why is it so expensive?
Raidens Huge Laser
Posted September 13th, 2007 at 7:38 pm.
Because only one exists and the seller is hoping someone is stupid enough to buy a pointless thing?
Kogen
Posted September 13th, 2007 at 8:16 pm.
Cheers Peck_Ed. I couldn’t actually remember what the size was - but I could have sworn my mate had some that were 700 mb. So I took a shot at it.
Graham
Posted September 14th, 2007 at 12:12 am.
LoL, he’s\they are becoming more humane. It cost $4000 now =)
Artheg
Posted September 16th, 2007 at 1:49 pm.
I thought zip disks were 100MB or 250 MB.
Emmett The Crab
Posted September 17th, 2007 at 11:39 am.