HITAC 8300

The HITAC 8000 Series was based on the basic concepts of the SPECTRA 70 Series, which RCA (Hitachi's technical partner) announced in 1964 to compete with IBM. Hitachi added its own technology to adapt this computer for the Japanese domestic market. Four types of systems were available to handle different scales of data processing. The HITAC 8200 was small, the 8300 and 8400 mid-size, and the 8500 large, and together they comprised a single family series.