Hitachi announced the BW-CH700P business word processor in 1997 with a Pentium CPU, an 8x CD-ROM drive, PC card slots, and Internet capability.
Feature list
- （1）Standard equipped with a digital photo gallery for quickly adding color photos to proposals or application forms
- （2）Scanned forms could be displayed in color to distinguish entered text from the original form
- （3）The Pentium CPU enabled high-speed document processing
- （4）Added more types of computer printers that could be used for printing
- （5）Able to share address books between computers and the word processor with the file conversion function
| System specifications | CPU | 133 MHz Pentium processor | |
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| Cache memory | 16 KB (CPU cache) and 256 KB external cache (pipeline burst SRAM) | ||
| Main memory | 16 MB EDO DRAM standard (expandable up to 48 MB with optional RAM) | ||
| Video | 1 MB of video memory Included a graphics accelerator and a controller PCI bus | ||
| Input devices | Keyboard | JIS standard | |
| Mouse | Optical two-button mouse | ||
| Display device | Monitor | 15-inch color CRT (with on-screen display function) | |
| Display colors | 256 colors in word processor mode 2.56 to 6.00 million colors in Windows mode |
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| Display size | 41 characters x 21 lines (four lines reserved for system use) |
52 characters x 29 lines 52 characters x 29 lines |
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| Character size | 24 x 24 pixels | 16 x 16 pixels | |
| Storage | Floppy drive | One 3.5-inch floppy drive (1.6 MB) Capacity: ~250 pages/disk |
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| Fixed disk drive | One 2.5-inch 1.2 GB drive (word processor partition: 146 MB, MS-DOS partition: 1.05 GB) Word processing partition capacity: ~2,500 pages standard, ~10,750 pages max. MS-DOS partition: Windows 95 preinstalled Internet Explorer preinstalled Matrix ME (Wordpal’s kana-kanji conversion) preinstalled Word processor viewer preinstalled |
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| CD-ROM drive | 8x (ATAPI) | ||
| Sound | Built-in mono speaker, stereo line output, microphone input | ||
| Interfaces | PC card slots | Two Type II and one Type III PC card slots (JEIDA Ver. 4.1) | |
| Serial port | RS-232C, D-sub 9-pin connector | ||
| Parallel port | Centronics half-pitch, 36-pin connector | ||
| Extension slots | One ISA bus (full size) and one PCI/ISA bus (half size) | ||
| External dimensions [mm] and weight | Monitor | 360 x 395 x 356 (w x d x h), ~13 kg | |
| Unit | 384 x 409 x 132 (w x d x h), ~8.2 kg | ||
| Keyboard | 470 x 210 x 41 (w x d x h), ~1.6 kg | ||
| Power consumption | 90 W (monitor) 46 W (main unit) 100 ± 10 VAC, 50/60 ± 1 Hz |
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| Energy Conservation Law labeling (energy consumption efficiency) | 90 W (monitor) 34 W (main unit) | ||
