6 Jun
2023
6 Jun
'23
8:22 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 04:09:11PM -0400, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote:
Sellam,
Bo Zimmerman at Zimmers.net has a picture of one here:
http://www.zimmers.net/commie/canonical.php?UPTOP&cat=PC+Series&pro…
Wow! News to me too. It appears that has the "Lemex" drives.
(Our internal nickname for those, you know why.)
Here is one booting up on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFnPXH1Fy5w
The quality is not great for either of them and there are no internal
pictures, unfortunately. I don't know if it's the same one but it looks
like the front mold was changed so there must have been more than one.
Awesome!
Only the early models shipped with that drive and although it was a cool
design the spring used to break...
The deal with Commodore/Hyperion was reported to be in 1984. The
Commodore Colt came out in 1984. From what I've read, Commodore was trying
to buy a PC before they started making their own. It would not be a leap
for them to use what they learned from the 100% DOS compatible Hyperion to
make the Colt because if they were working on the Colt, they wouldn't have
needed the Hyperion.
As I remember it, Commodore simply didn't want it made public they had
bought our design...
All speculation on my part as there is not a lot of information on this out
there.
Santo
Indeed.
On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:56 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
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On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 12:39 PM Santo Nucifora
via cctalk <
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On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:04 PM db via cctalk
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wrote:
That is very interesting. I've seen Commodore Hyperion's in the same
case
but with the molded "Commodore" brand
instead of "Hyperion" but figured
they were just rebranded Hyperions. Would you happen to know if those
were
the 100% compatible versions?
I know Commodore bought the rights but ended up making their own PCs that
turned into Commodore's PC line and the Hyperion design disappeared. I'm
wondering if they may have used the 100% compatible Hyperion internals
for
their models?
Are the Commodore Colts the line acquired from Hyperion or their own
design?
I don't believe I've ever seen a Commodore-badged Hyperion.
Sellam