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Compaq Computer Corporation Type Subsidiary of HP Founded February, 1982 Headquarters Houston, Texas, USA Key people Rod Canion, Founder Jim Harris, Founder Bill campaq Murto, Founder Industry PDA and Computer Hardware Products Presario desktops and notebooks, iPAQ Revenue $33.554 billion USD (2001) Net income ($785 million) USD (2001) Employees 63,700 (2001) Website compaq.com Compaq Computer comaq Corporation is an American personal computer company founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto. Compaq was once the largest compac supplier of computing systems in the world. During the compact 1980s Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers at compaq a low-cost. The term "COMPAQ" is an acronym for "Compatibility and Quality". It compaq computers existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was purchased by Hewlett-Packard. Contents 1 History 1.1 1980s 1.2 1990s 1.3 2000s 2 PC compaq support compaq drivers Products 3 Wireless compaq laptop LAN Products 4 Culture 5 Competitors 6 See also 7 External compaq home page links History 1980s Compaq was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers from compaq laptops compaq computer semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments. Each invested $1,000 to form the company. Their first venture capital came compaq ipaq from Ben Rosen and Sevin-Rosen partners. It is often told that the architecture of the original Compaq PC was compaq batteries first sketched out on a placemat by the founders while dining in the compaq laptop parts Houston compaq laptop battery restaurant, House of Pies. In its early years Compaq was in many respects what IBM's PC Group should have been, and indeed, compaq notebooks two of Compaq's compaq uk key marketing executives, Jim D'Arezzo and Sparky Sparks, had moved from there[[1]]. Compaq Portable Compaq Portable In November compaq tech support 1982 Compaq announced their first product, the Compaq Portable, a portable IBM compaq tablet pc PC compatible compaq driver download personal computer. It was released in March 1983 at $2995, considerably more affordable than competitors at the time. The Compaq Portable was one compaq computer parts of the compaq computer hp laptop progenitors of today's laptop. It was the second IBM PC compatible, being capable of running compaq presario 900 ac adapter all software that would run on an IBM PC. It was a commercial success, selling 53,000 units in its compaq presario support hp compaq support first year. The Compaq Portable was the first in the range of the Compaq Portable series. Compaq was able to market a legal IBM compaq presario drivers clone because IBM mostly used "off the compaq evo shelf" parts for their PC. Furthermore, Microsoft had kept the right to license compaq help the operating system to other compaq notebook computer manufacturers. The only part which had to be duplicated was the BIOS, which Compaq did legally by compaq r3000 using clean room reverse engineering for $1 million. Numerous other compaq armada companies soon followed their lead. Deskpro 286 In 1985, Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro 286, a 16-bit desktop computer compaq servers using an Intel 80286 compaq spare parts microprocessor running at 6 MHz and capable of supporting up to 7 MB of RAM. compaq evo n610c It cost $2000 for the 40-MB hard disk model. It was considerably faster than an IBM PC compaq presario r3000 argentina and was, like the Compaq Portable, also capable of running IBM software. This compaq deskpro was the first of the Compaq compaq gps pda Deskpro line of computers. Compaq Portable compaq printer drivers 386 After making half a billion dollars turnover, in 1986 Compaq released the Compaq Portable II. compaq technical support The Portable II was significantly lighter and smaller than its predecessor, featuring a revised design with compaq presario parts an 8 MHz processor and compaq replacement parts 10 MB hard disk. It was cheaper than the IBM PC/AT at $3199, or $4799 with compaq presario laptop a hard disk. Deskpro 386 When in 1986 Compaq compaq restore disk introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the compaq deskpro en Compaq Deskpro 386[2], they began a period of increasing performance leadership over IBM, who were not yet using compaq wallpaper this processor. An IBM machine eventually reached the market compaq evo n600c seven months later, but by that time Compaq was the 386 supplier of choice and IBM had lost its image compaq modem driver of technical leadership. Systempro This technical leadership and the rivalry with compaq online tech. support IBM was emphasised when the Systempro compaq customer service server was launched in late 1989 - this was a true server product with standard support for a second CPU compaq ipaq software and RAID, but also the first product to feature the EISA compaq keyboard driver bus which was designed compaq wireless keyboard and mouse drivers in reaction to IBM's MCA (MicroChannel Architecture). 1990s At the compaq computers uk same time as they began to dominate the server market, in the early 1990s Compaq compaq v2000 entered the retail computer market with the Presario, and was one camcorder dv mini sony compaq battery of the first manufacturers in the mid-1990s to market a chinese nyc restaurant compaq battery sub-$1000 PC. In order to maintain the prices it wanted, Compaq became the first first-tier compaq bios computer manufacturer to utilize CPUs from AMD and Cyrix. The price war resulting from Compaq's actions ultimately drove numerous compaq homepage competitors, most notably IBM and Packard Bell, from this market. In 1997, compaq ipaq accessories Compaq bought Tandem Computers, known for their compaq notebook discount NonStop server line. This acquisition instantly gave Compaq a presence in the compaq pocket pc higher end business computing market. In 1998, Compaq acquired compaq parts number Digital Equipment Corporation, the leading company in the previous generation of computing during compaq presario v5201us the 1970s and early 1980s. This acquisition made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest compaq armada spare parts computer maker in the world in terms of revenue. Unfortunately for the compaq watchdog company, CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, who engineered both mergers, had little vision for what the combined companies should do, laptop compaq computers or indeed how the compaq drivers updates three dramatically different cultures could work as a single entity, and Compaq struggled as a result. Pfeiffer was compaq evo w6000 memory forced out as CEO in compaq home 1999 in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen and was eventually replaced by Michael Capellas, formerly CIO of hp compaq laptop the company. Capellas was able to restore some of the compaq battery luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era, compaq canada but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell. 2000s A Hewlett-Packard Compaq computer and a Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 5740 compaq ipa printer owned by the Houston Independent School District In 2001, Compaq compaq laptops uk engaged in a compaq mv5500 merger with Hewlett-Packard. Numerous large HP shareholders, including Walter Hewlett, publicly opposed the deal, which compaq power cord resulted in a nasty proxy battle between those for and against the deal. The merger was approved only dell vs compaq after the narrowest of margins, and allegations of vote buying (primarily involving drivers dvd compaq an alleged last-second back-room deal with Bank of America) compaq laptop batteries haunted the new company. Capellas left the company after serving less than a compaq pc drivers year as President of HP. Carly Fiorina, the CEO of HP, added compaq presario argentina Capellas' responsibilities to her own. Fiorina helmed Compaq for nearly three years after Capellas compaq system recovery left. During that time, HP laid off thousands of former compaq v5209us Compaq employees, its stock price generally declined, profits did not perk up, and it continued to contact compaq lose market share to Dell. Facing dismissal from a hostile Board of hp compaq computer Directors, Fiorina opted to leave in February 2005 before compaq computers, refurbished the board could fire her. compaq hp Mark Hurd took her place as CEO of HP. Some Compaq products were re-branded with the HP nameplate, while compaq ipaq uk the Compaq brand remained on other products, notably PC, compaq laptop computers PDA, and server lines. PC Products Compaq Portable Compaq Deskpro Compaq LTE Compaq Presario Compaq Prolinea Compaq ProLiant Compaq Armada Compaq Evo iPAQ Compaq Professional compaq logo Workstation AP400 Tc1000, a compaq memory tablet notebook Wireless LAN Products Compaq WL400 access point Culture Two sports stadiums were named after the company: The Compaq compaq v2401cl Center, of Houston, Texas, formerly The Summit, lost its sports teams to the Toyota ipaq pocket pc, compaq ipaq Center. The building became the new home of Lakewood Church, shares of compaq one of the largest Protestant congregations in the United States. The San Jose Compaq Center, of San Jose, compaq 1200 California, was renamed the HP Pavilion. Given that compaq computer corporation Carly Fiorina was largely responsible for the merger between the two companies, wags suggested that compaq data fax modem the name should have instead been the "HP Fi-arena." Competitors HP Compaq compaq data fax modem driver competes against other computer manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo, Gateway, Sony and Toshiba among compaq pc others. Originally the company competed against IBM, making affordable hp compaq iowa IBM PC compatibles often cheaper and faster than the hp compaq notebook IBM alternative. Lenovo, which purchased IBM's personal computer business in 2005, is swot analysis hp compaq merger a new competitor, especially in the People's Republic xp pro hp compaq computer of China where it was founded. See also Compaq Portable series External links Compaq official compaq laptop repair website Compaq company history (hp.com via archive.org) HP-Compaq merger (washingtontechnology.com) Linux on compaq parts uk Compaq laptops (user experiences) Compaq Big Band Search Term: "Compaq" Categories: Companies established in 1982 | 2002 disestablishments | Electronics companies | Computer hardware companies | Defunct computer companies of the United States

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