The " Compaq " name from its " HP Compaq " series was originally used for all of HP's business and budget notebooks.

GW-BASIC was a dialect of the programming language BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq.

The Lakewood Church Central Campus ( originally The Summit and formerly Compaq Center ) is a house of worship in Houston, Texas, United States.

ESC / Java was originally developed at the Compaq Systems Research Center ( SRC ).

During its existence as a division of HP, Compaq primarily competed against other budget-oriented personal computer series from manufacturers including Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba.

It also competed against faster portables based on the Intel 80286 that offered optional hard drives, from companies such as Compaq, and laptops from companies such as Toshiba and Zenith that were lighter and offered similar specifications, sometimes at half the price.

Seequa competed against the early " transportable " computers from Compaq.

On one hand, Compaq struggled to compete in the PC market with the Dell Computer Corporation, which sold directly to buyers, avoiding the dealer channel and its markup, and built each machine to order to keep inventories and costs at a minimum.

Detractors of the deal noted that buying Compaq was a " distraction " that would not directly help HP take on IBM's breadth or Dell Computer's direct sales model.

This new package allowed commodity hardware to be used as well as the proprietary Compaq hardware supported by the earlier Integrity XC product, and was directly available from SCO.

Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era and he repaired the relationship with Microsoft which had deteriorated under his predecessor's tenure, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell who took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001.

In July 2000, Convolve Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) filed a lawsuit against Compaq Computer Corp. and Seagate Technology Inc. in the US District Court Southern District of New York, alleging that the defendants had stolen Convolve's computer disk drive technologies ( US patents 4, 916, 635 and 5, 638, 267 ) and incorporated them into Seagate's products as ' Sound Barrier Technology ' ( SBT ).

The most recent and one of the more bizarre hit wicket dismissals was of Sri Lanka national cricket team captain Kumar Sangakkara in the finals of the triangular ODI Compaq Cup against India at Colombo on 14 September 2009, as he attempted a shot and in the follow through his bat slipped out of his hands, flew backwards in the air and landed on the stumps.

Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse-engineer IBM Personal Computer.

Compaq PortableIn November 1982 Compaq announced their first product, the Compaq Portable, a portable IBM PC compatible personal computer.

Compaq was able to market a legal IBM clone because IBM mostly used " off the shelf " parts for their PC.

It was considerably faster than an IBM PC and was, like the Compaq Portable, also capable of running IBM software.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

An IBM-made 386 machine eventually reached the market seven months later, but by that time Compaq was the 386 supplier of choice and IBM had lost its image of technical leadership.

Pfeiffer's vision was to move Compaq beyond its main business of manufacturing retail PCs and into the more lucrative business services and solutions that IBM did well at.

In the 1990s, as IBM's own PC division declined, Compaq faced other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers like Dell Computer, Packard Bell, AST Research, and Gateway 2000.

The first personal computer to make use of the 80386 was designed and manufactured by Compaq and marked the first time a fundamental component in the IBM PC compatible de facto-standard was updated by a company other than IBM.

By extending the 16 / 24-bit IBM PC / AT standard into a natively 32-bit computing environment, Compaq became the first third party to implement a major technical hardware advance on the PC platform.

Computer manufacturers that used these processors include Packard Bell, Compaq and IBM.

The success of this initial processor version was limited to replacing PA-RISC in HP systems, Alpha in Compaq systems and MIPS in SGI systems, though IBM also delivered a supercomputer based on this processor.

Microsoft made an offer in 1994 where IBM would receive the same terms as Compaq ( the number one PC manufacturer at the time ) for a license of Windows 95, if IBM ended development of OS / 2 completely.

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.

Compaq Computer Corp. announced its first IBM PC compatible in November 1982 —- the Compaq Portable.

In more recent history, Digital Equipment had a large manufacturing plant near Ayr from about 1976 until the company was taken over by Compaq in 1998.

Instead of manufacturing the player themselves, Compaq licensed the design to HanGo, which called it the " Personal Jukebox-PJB-100 ".

By the mid 1990s major PC OEMs such as Compaq and Hewlett-Packard were outsourcing their own complete end-to-end system design and manufacture to Original Design Manufacturers ( ODMs ) based in Taiwan, and were moving at least some of their manufacturing to cheaper locations overseas.

This is attributed to a faulty manufacturing on part of Nvidia which caused a multimillion recall not only of some Dell notebooks but also some HP, Compaq and Apple products Affected models.

The Compaq Portable was one of the progenitors of today's laptop ; some called it a " suitcase computer " for its size and the look of its case.

On June 28, 1984 Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro, a 16-bit desktop computer using an Intel 8086 microprocessor running at 7. 14 MHz.

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

Under Pfeiffer's tenure as chief executive, Compaq entered the retail computer market with the Presario which one of the first manufacturers in the mid-1990s to market a sub -$ 1000 PC.

In order to maintain the prices it wanted, Compaq became the first first-tier computer manufacturer to utilize CPUs from AMD and Cyrix.

This acquisition made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue behind I. B. M.

During November 1999, Compaq began to work with Microsoft to create the first in a line of small-scale, web-based computer systems called MSN Companions.

An HP Compaq computer and an HP Deskjet 5740 printer owned by the Houston Independent School District

In addition, the merging of the stagnant Compaq computer assembly business with HP's lucrative printing and imaging division was criticized for obstructing the profitability of the printing / imaging segment.

In 2010, the last Compaq Presario branded laptop was produced at an HP computer assembly facility in China.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

A surface-mount version of Intel 80386SX processor in a Compaq Deskpro computer.

The Compaq was the first sewing machine-sized portable computer that was essentially 100 % PC-compatible.

Although Compaq kept its BIOS proprietary, eventually the Phoenix BIOS and similar commercially-available products permitted computer makers to build essentially 100 %- compatible clones without having to reverse-engineer the IBM PC BIOS themselves.

* The 1982 introduction of the Compaq Portable, the first 100 % IBM PC compatible computer, providing portability unavailable from IBM at the time.

Intel and Microsoft had enormous revenues, Compaq and a thousand other makers between them made far more machines than IBM, but the power to decide the shape of the personal computer rested firmly in IBM's hands.

However, the integration of DOS into Windows 95 was the masterstroke: not only were the other operating system vendors frozen out, Microsoft could now require computer manufacturers to comply with its demands on pain of higher prices ( as when it required IBM to stop actively marketing OS / 2 or else pay more than twice as much for Windows 95 as its competitor Compaq ) or by withholding " Designed for Windows 95 " endorsement ( which was regarded as an essential hardware marketing tool ).

The MediaGX led to Cyrix's first big win, when Compaq used it in its lowest-priced Presario 2100 and 2200 computer.