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The Hitachi Flora Prius was a range of personal computers marketed in Japan by Hitachi, Ltd. during the late 1990s.

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. 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.

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)
• CD-ROM Drive: 24X speed max.
• 100BASE-TX/10BASE-10

References

1. Hitachi to Release New FLORA Prius 330J Model PCs with Preinstalled BeOS(TM) for the Consumer Market, November 11, 1998 News Release, Hitachi, Ltd.
2. 1999 Hitachi to Bundle Award-Winning BeatWare Mail-It with New FLORA Prius 330J PCs, The Free Library (January, 19)
3. BeOS v. 4.0 products designed for interoperability, 11/30/1998, By: Craig Menefee, ITworldcanada.com
4. Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret, By Eloquence, Oct 23, 2001, kuro5hin.org
5. Launching the BeOS on Hitachi FLORA Prius systems, The BeOS Tip Server

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