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.
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Stumbled across this site, as I was just thinking about the good old days at Dynalogic/ Hyperion. I used fly out of Canada every 2nd week to train dealers on how to repair the machines. It got so bad, that I ended up writing a piece of software that we later sold to dealers (I think Dysan ended up copying it and selling it under another name, my first experience with such business practices). My software allowed them to use the machine as a disk drive exerciser alignment tool (yes, because the drives caused the machine to be DOA far too many times). I later switched over to a company that made a solid state disk drive emulator (for the Hyperion), using "bubble memory" - it too had technology failure problems LOL. Those were the days. I still have a brand new Hyperion, in the original bag, with all the various software. BTW, we called it a "luggable" back then.
Thursday 9th March 2023
Mike (Canada)
Stumbled across this site, as I was just thinking about the good old days at Dynalogic/ Hyperion. I used fly out of Canada every 2nd week to train dealers on how to repair the machines. It got so bad, that I ended up writing a piece of software that we later sold to dealers (I think Dysan ended up copying it and selling it under another name, my first experience with such business practices). My software allowed them to use the machine as a disk drive exerciser alignment tool (yes, because the drives caused the machine to be DOA far too many times). I later switched over to a company that made a solid state disk drive emulator (for the Hyperion), using "bubble memory" - it too had technology failure problems LOL. Those were the days. I still have a brand new Hyperion, in the original bag, with all the various software. BTW, we called it a "luggable" back then.
Thursday 9th March 2023
Mike (Canada)
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)
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
Special thanks to Chuck Bredemeier who donated us this computer !
