In 2009, HP sold part of Compaq's former headquarters to the Lone Star College System.

Compaq's inventory and gross margins were better than that of its rivals which enabled it wage the price wars.

Under Mason's guidance, Compaq utilized its assets more efficiently instead of focusing just on income and profits, which increased Compaq's cash from $ 700 million to nearly $ 5 billion in one year.

One of Compaq's few bright spots was its services business, which was outperforming HP's own services division.

** Compaq's successful reverse-engineering of the IBM PC, which led to many competitors producing IBM clones that undercut IBM's own offering.

He started up Compaq's first overseas office in Munich in 1984.

Two key marketing executives in Compaq's early years, Jim D ' Arezzo and Sparky Sparks, had come from IBM's PC Group.

It was Compaq's first non-portable computer and began the Compaq Deskpro line of computers.

When Michael S. Swavely retired as president of Compaq's North American division on July 12, 1991, Eckhard Pfeiffer was named to succeed him.

By 1990, Compaq Europe was a $ 2 billion business, and foreign sales contributed 54 percent of Compaq's revenues.

Canion had allowed competitors such as Dell Computer, AST Research, and Gateway 2000 to undercut Compaq with cheaper offerings, that led to a $ 71 million loss for that quarter, Compaq's first loss as a company.

Canion declined an offer to remain on Compaq's board and was bitter about his ouster as he didn't speak to Rosen for years, although their relationship became cordial again.

The two price wars resulting from Compaq's actions ultimately drove numerous competitors from the market, such as Packard Bell, and by 1994 Compaq had overtaken Apple Computer and even surpassed I. B. M.

Also Compaq's return on invested capital ( after-tax operating profit divided by operating assets ) has doubled to 50 percent from 25 percent in that period.

Rosen suggested that the accelerating change brought about by the Internet had overtaken Compaq's management team, saying " As a company engaged in transforming its industry for the Internet era, we must have the organizational flexibility necessary to move at Internet speed.

CFO Mason, who had previously been offered the job of chief executive of a company outside the personal computer industry, informed Compaq's board that he accepted the offer.

Rose, head of Compaq's Enterprise Computing group, was reportedly upset that he was not considered for the CEO vacancy ; his division reportedly accounted for one third of Compaq's revenues and likely the largest part of its profits.

Pfieffer's permanent replacement was Michael Capellas, who had been serving as Compaq's CIO.

Hewlett-Packard had reported yearly revenues of $ 47 billion, while Compaq's was $ 40 billion, and the combined company would have been close to IBM's $ 90 billion revenues.

HP's offer was regarded by analysts to be overvaluing Compaq, due to Compaq's shaky financial performance in the past recent years ( there were rumors that it could run out of money in 12 months and be forced to cease business operations had it stayed independent ), as well as Compaq's own more conservative valuation of its assets.

Compaq's pre-merger ticker symbol was CPQ.

Capellas, Compaq's last Chairman and CEO, became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, to ease the integration of the two companies.

Since 2005, the world's top selling brand of inkjet and laser printers has been HP which now has 46 % of sales in inkjet and 55. 5 % in laser printers.

All Compaq computers now ship with HP software.

( HP now uses the name HP DECset for a software development toolset product.

Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the HP Alpha.

This and earlier releases of HP-UX are now effectively obsolete, and support by HP ended on June 30, 2003.

Their commercial development came in work by Burroughs ( later Unisys ), Convex Computer ( later Hewlett-Packard ), Honeywell Information Systems Italy ( HISI ) ( later Groupe Bull ), Silicon Graphics ( later Silicon Graphics International ), Sequent Computer Systems ( later IBM ), Data General ( later EMC ) and Digital ( later Compaq, now HP ) during the 1990s.

* Electronic Data Systems, a technology company founded by Ross Perot, now HP Enterprise Services

Pocket PCs are manufactured and sold by several different companies ; the major manufacturers include HP ( under the iPAQ and now defunct Jornada brands ), Toshiba, Acer, Asus, Dell ( under the now defunct Axim brand ), Fujitsu Siemens, E-TEN, HTC, and ViewSonic.

For their third season, 1993 – 94, the Sharks moved to their current home, the San Jose Arena ( now the HP Pavilion at San Jose ).

The first was Production Village ( Virgin Active gym now stands on the site ; apparently this was part of the old HP factory ).

* AlphaServer, DEC now HP machine successor to the VAX

* AlphaStation, DEC now HP workstation successor to the VAX

As a nearly anonymous division within Compaq and now HP, Tandem's culture is now history.

Business cards can also be printed with a digital copier, which uses toner fused onto the surface of the card, however many modern printing firms instead utilise high end " Digital Presses ," now distinct from office copiers, which range from light production units such as the Bizhub 5500 from Konica Minolta, to state of the art units such as the latest HP Indigo Digital Presses.

Frege shows that HP and suitable definitions of arithmetical notions entail all axioms of what we now call second-order arithmetic.

LSI, Adaptec, and ATTO currently offer PCIe SCSI adapters which fit in new Apple Mac, on Intel PCs, and low-profile motherboards from companies like HP ( which now lack SCSI support due to the inclusion of SAS and / or SATA connectivity ).

Most of today's consumer electronics are now RoHS compliant, examples include Apple's iPod portable music players, Dell and HP home computers and servers, Nintendo's Wii, Motorola and Nokia's wireless phones, Netgear routers, and Panasonic televisions and appliances.

* 2009: Palm ( now a division of HP ) launches the Palm Pre smartphone with the Palm Touchstone wireless charger.

The team at Compaq continued to develop the system, now called OpenSSI, for some time after HP acquired Compaq.

Some software companies that employed the Hexachrome system were Aldus ( now Adobe ), Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress ; as well as the printer manufacturers HP, Epson, and Xerox.

Because of its ties to HP, initial university programs focused on engineering and business, and classes were held in the Cragmor Sanotorium building, what is now Main Hall, and Cragmor Hall, a modern expansion of Main Hall.