Hitachi Flora Prius
Encyclopedia
The Hitachi
Flora Prius was a range of computer
s marketed in Japan during the late 1990s. The Flora Prius was preinstalled with both Microsoft
's Windows 98
as well as BeOS
. It did not, however, have a dual-boot option as Microsoft reminded Be of the terms of the Windows OEM license. In effect, two thirds of the hard drive was hidden from the end-user, and a series of complicated manipulations were necessary to activate the BeOS partition.
Basic Specifications
Hitachi, Ltd.
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
Flora Prius was a range of computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
s marketed in Japan during the late 1990s. The Flora Prius was preinstalled with both Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
's Windows 98
Windows 98
Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid...
as well as BeOS
BeOS
BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing...
. It did not, however, have a dual-boot option as Microsoft reminded Be of the terms of the Windows OEM license. In effect, two thirds of the hard drive was hidden from the end-user, and a series of complicated manipulations were necessary to activate the BeOS partition.
- FLORA Prius 330J came in three models:
- 330N40JB - Base version with no LCD Screen
- 3304ST40JB - Included a 14.1-inch super TFT color LCD Display
- 3304ST40JBT - Included a 14.1-inch super TFT color LCD Display and WinTV Video capture board
Basic Specifications
- CPU: Pentium II(R) Processor (400MHz)
- RAM: 64 MB SDRAM
- Hard Drive: 6.4 GB (2 GB for Windows(R)98 and 4.6 GB for BeOS(TM))
- CD-ROM Drive: 24X speed max.
- 100BASE-TX/10BASE-10