The Teradrive – A Sega Mega Drive and IBM PC Hybrid

JPN Sega 16-bit collector here; the Teradrive was an interesting piece of kit, but I've always been floored by just how many variants of the core system there were: from the beautiful Wondermega RG-M1 to the Laseractive, to a Megadrive and MegaCD shoved into a boombox, etc. There's a reason that generation from Sega spawned multiple books about its history.

And then there was this, which is perhaps even more impossible to get ahold of: http://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Anser At least the Teradrive pops up on Japanese auction sites, some even in the original packaging; I've never actually seen a full Mega Anser out there, though a couple of the Ten Pad controllers show up every year or two.

In short, Sega attempted to provide the utility of the platform as a limited use-case computer, and then attempted to bring the functionality of the platform _to_ a computer.

A friend of mine owned one of the latter Amstrad MegaPC models, same sort of thing but based on the 80386SX processor. It was pretty cool - http://www.segaretro.org/Amstrad_Mega_PC

It's funny how, in this page, MHz has a deep ring. Probably remains of the emotions of a younger self. At that time all these console/* hybrids were amazing to me. Console/PC, Console/TapeRecorder, anything..

ps: internal pics http://nemesis.hacking-cult.org/MegaDrive/TeraDrive/Pictures... (from http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/sega-teradrive-pc-cpu-up...)

Also the rarest IBM Model M, for keyboard weirdos.

> released to the Japanese market in early 1991

Japan in the 90's must have been awesome, it was like a version of the future from the past.