Hitachi Flora Prius

The Hitachi Flora Prius was a range of personal computers marketed in Japan by Hitachi, Ltd. during the late 1990s.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

Models

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

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)^{[clarification needed]}
CD-ROM Drive: 24X speed max.
100BASE-TX/10BASE-10

References

^ 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
^ Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret, By Eloquence, Oct 23, 2001, kuro5hin.org
^ Launching the BeOS on Hitachi FLORA Prius systems, The BeOS Tip Server

Hitachi

Divisions and
subsidiaries

Current	GlobalLogic Hitachi Cable Hitachi Cable Manchester Hitachi Canadian Industries Hitachi Capital Hitachi Construction Machinery Bradken Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) Hitachi Consulting Hitachi Data Systems (BlueArc) Hitachi Electronics Hitachi Energy Hitachi Medical Systems Hitachi Rail Hitachi Rail STS Hitachi Rail Italy Horizon Nuclear Power JECS
Former	Clarion Euclid Trucks¹ Fabrik¹ Hitachi Global Storage Technologies² Maxell

Joint ventures and
shareholdings

Current	GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (40%) Hitachi Astemo (66.6%) Keihin Nissin Showa Tokico Hitachi-LG Data Storage Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning (40%) Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery (60%)
Former	Agility Trains Alaxala Networks Japan Display Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Nippon Columbia Renesas Electronics

Products, services
and standards

Current	ALiS EMIEW Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Hitachi DX07 Hitachi Starboard Locomotives Hitachi Magic Wand Multiple units Hitachi 917 Hitachi SR8000 Hitachi TrueCopy LS-R M8 Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk SuperH Universal Storage Platform
Defunct	D-VHS H8 Family HD64180 HITAC HITAC S-810 Hitachi 6309 Deskstar Hitachi Flora Prius Hitachi G1000 Hitachi Hatsukaze Hitachi SR2201 Hitachi T.2 Hitachi TR.1 M6 Microdrive Travelstar