Office processors had become more sophisticated, shifting from their previous role of simple rationalization of work to strategic uses such as customer information management and decision-making support. To meet these market needs, Hitachi commercialized the completely new HITAC L-700 Series (announced in November 1989, shipped in Jan. - March 1990).
Dramatically enhanced functionality was achieved by using 530,000 transistor BICMOS VLSI in the top-end HITAC L-780 Processor Group, and 100,000 gate CMOS VLSI in the HITAC L-750∼770 Processor Group. Models in the HITAC L-750 processor group or higher supported the new OS MIOS7/AS. They also provided support for the "BELIEVE" intelligent document recognition feature, which was based on sophisticated image recognition technology and knowledge processing technology. This feature enabled recognition of the form and content of documents which were read in, and automatic creation of processing programs suited to those documents. Support was also provided for "Everrun", and high-reliability was achieved.
This series supported the "Integrated Business System" integrated application package, which enabled consistent database management by organically combining finance/accounting, payroll calculation, sales management and production management. It also supported a package to help in building strategic information systems (SIS).
| L-710/10* | L-720/10* | L-730/10 | L-730/20 | L-730/30 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory capacity | - | 2MB | 2--4MB | ||
| Disk capacity | - | - | 20--100 MB |
40--120 MB |
80--160 MB |
| Display | 15inch monochrome (green, paperwhite)/color, liquid crystal (paper white) | ||||
| OS | - | - | MIOS3/AS | ||
| Languages | - | - | COBOL85/RS, COBOL, RFD, Extended BASIC, C | ||
*: The L-710/10 and L-720/10 were dedicated workstations for the L-750 and higher.
| L-750 /10 |
L-750 /20 |
L-750 /30 |
L-760 /10 |
L-760 /20 |
L-760 /30 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory capacity | 4-- 8MB |
4-- 12MB |
4-- 16MB |
4-- 8MB |
4-- 16MB |
4-- 24MB |
| Disk capacity | 100-- 200MB |
100-- 400MB |
100-- 700MB |
150-- 600MB |
150-- 900MB |
150MB-- 1.05GB |
| Max. number of workstations | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
| Number of communication lines | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| OS | MIOS7/AS | |||||
| Languages | COBOL85, ETOILE/OP, BELIEVE, FORTRAN77, PASCAL | |||||
| L-770 /10 |
L-770 /20 |
L-770 /30 |
L-780 /10 |
L-780 /20 |
L-780 /30 |
L-780 /40 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory capacity | 6-- 24MB |
6-- 32MB |
6-- 40MB |
8-- 56MB |
8-- 80MB |
8-- 104MB |
8- 120MB |
| Disk capacity | 280MB-- 1.12GB |
280MB-- 1.96GB |
280MB-- 3.92GB |
590MB-- 4.13GB |
590MB-- 8.26GB |
590MB-- 12.39GB |
590MB-- 16.52GB |
| Max. number of workst- ations |
32 | 48 | 64 | 64 | 96 | 128 | 240 |
| Number of commun- ication lines |
12 | 16 | 16 | 30 | 45 | 60 | 60 |
| OS | MIOS7/AS | ||||||
| Languages | COBOL85, ETOILE/OP, BELIEVE, FORTRAN77, PASCAL | ||||||
