The Hitachi Flora Prius was a range of personal computers marketed in Japan by Hitachi, Ltd. during the late 1990s.Hitachi to Release New FLORA Prius 330J Model PCs with Preinstalled BeOS(TM) for the Consumer Market, November 11, 1998 News Release, Hitachi, Ltd.1999 Hitachi to Bundle Award-Winning BeatWare Mail-It with New FLORA Prius 330J PCs, The Free Library (January, 19)BeOS v. 4.0 products designed for interoperability, 11/30/1998, By: Craig Menefee, ITworldcanada.com
The Flora Prius was preinstalled with both Microsoft Windows 98 as well as BeOS. It did not, however, have a dual-boot option as Microsoft reminded Hitachi of the terms of the Windows OEM license.Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret, By Eloquence, Oct 23, 2001, kuro5hin.org In effect, two thirds of the hard drive was hidden from the end-user, and a series of complicated manipulations was necessary to activate the BeOS partition.Launching the BeOS on Hitachi FLORA Prius systems, The BeOS Tip Server
Models
FLORA Prius 330J came in three models: 330N40JB: Base version with no LCD 3304ST40JB: Included a 14.1-inch super TFT color LCD 3304ST40JBT: Included a 14.1-inch super TFT color LCD and WinTV Video capture board
Base specifications
CPU: Pentium II processor (400 MHz) RAM: 64 MB SDRAM Hard Drive: 6.4 GB (2 GB for Windows 98 and 4.6 GB for BeOS) CD-ROM Drive: 24X speed max. 100BASE-TX/10BASE-10
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