General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

CARDBOARD CASINGS WITH PAPER PARTS & CELLOPHANE TAPE

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

45.2 cm

Width

25.7 cm

Height

20.8 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Miscellaneous

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Dynalogic

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Ottawa

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1982

Canada

PART OF COLLECTION OF MOCKUPS, FIRST PRODUCTION MODEL, PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS & MANUALS RELATING TO HYPERION COMPUTER, DONATED BY C. MURRAY BELL, FOUNDER OF DYNALOGIC CORP. OF OTTAWA & DEVELOPER OF HYPERION. HYPERION WAS FIRST CANADIANDESIGNED & MFD. PORTABLE COMPUTER, APPEARING YEAR AFTER FIRST PORTABLE, AMERICAN OSBORNE.

Function

SIMPLE MODEL OF COMPUTER CASING MADE DURING EARLY DESIGN PROCESS IN ORDER TO CREATE THREE DIMENSIONAL ILLUSTRATION OF DESIGN CONCEPT.

Technical

ACCORDING TO MR. BELL, THIS WAS ORIGINAL CARDBOARD MOCKUP OF HYPERION DESIGN, MADE IN WINTER OF 1982. HYPERION APPEARED AFTER FIRST PORTABLE COMPUTER, OSBORNE, & HAD LARGER MEMORY; LARGER, AMBER SCREEN; LARGER DISK DRIVE CAPACITY; MS-DOS OPERATING SYSTEM; LANGUAGES - PASCAL, BASIC, FORTRAN. IT WAS MADE BETWEEN 1983 & 1985.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

HANDWRITTEN BLACK NUMBERS & LETTERS

Missing

COMPLETE

Finish

WHITE WITH BEIGE PARTS

Decoration

MULTICOLOURED HAND DRAWN DISK DRIVES, SCREEN, CONTROLS, KEYBOARD