Compaq Computer Corporation was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced some of the
Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, pictured in 2016
The Deskpro 386 was the first personal computer to feature an Intel 386 microprocessor.
The SLT/286, Compaq's first laptop, was released in 1988.
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a on
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…Corporation in 1994, and a risky acquisition of DEC in 1998 (which includes the inheritance of the DEC Alpha family of CPUs), Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) for US$25 billion in 2002. Despite using the Compaq name in HP's own HP Compaq brand of business computers, which served as a replacement for the…
Headquarters in Palo Alto, California
The garage in Palo Alto, where Hewlett and Packard began the company
The HP200A, a precision audio oscillator, was the company's first financially successful product.
Introduced in 1968, "The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer is ready, willing, and able ... to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer."