The Hyperion was produced by the Infotech Cie. of Ottawa, a subsidiary of Bytec Management Corp. It was the first portable IBM-PC compatible computer, released three months earlier than the Compaq Portable.
The machine offered powerful features for a 1982 computer, including dual 360K 5.25" disk drives, built-in 7-inch amber CRT and a video out jack for displaying CGA graphics. The keyboard slides underneath the main unit and locks into place. It was delivered along with a suite of standard software: word processor, data base and communications.
Although it was significantly lighter and handy than the Compaq, the Hyperion suffered from reliabilty problems, specially from disk drives. Furthermore it was only 95% PC compatible. For these reasons, Compaq definitively took the lead of portable sales.
The Hyperion sales continued in Canada and USA for two year. A few of them were also sold in Europe from September 1983 by the German Anderson Jacobson Cie, under the name Ajile.
Special thanks to Chuck Bredemeier who donated us this computer !
I was Anderson Jacobson''s service manger in Philly (Jeffersonville), and we had a Hyperion as a sales demo. The Philly office only sold a few units, but we did use the demo as an office computer. I found it quite useful, and the bundled software was advanced for the time. It worked OK except for the floppy drives.
Monday 24th April 2017
Dennis (Philadelphia, PA)
I had one too in the early eighties, in Australia. My memory must be failing me as I thought I had it when I worked for an employer whom I left around March 1982. I remember it came with MSDOS 1.1 and then happy days I got MSDOS 1.25. I certainly had Lotus 123, a word processor and Turbo Pascal. .....and it was transportable. It was a joy that I could take home rather than pencil and paper at night.
Wednesday 1st June 2016
Ross (Australia)
I had a Hyperion in 1983 in Denmark, Europe. It ran MS-DOS 1.25, a special danish version of 1.1, I used it with Lotus 1-2-3 for accounting. I was very happy about it, it never let me down. In Denmark it was sold by a company called HELPP Computer. I do''nt know how many they sold. In Norway a bank bought 50 to be used in banking.
Wednesday 22nd July 2015
Jørgen Bang (Danmark)
NAME
HYPERION
MANUFACTURER
Dynalogic
TYPE
Transportable
ORIGIN
Canada
YEAR
January 1983
END OF PRODUCTION
1984
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke 83 keys PC-style keyboard with numeric keypad
