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Compaq and was
Compaq Computer Corporation was a company founded in 1982, that developed, sold and supported computers and related products and services.
Struggling in the aftermath of the dot-com bubble bust, Compaq was acquired for US $ 25 billion by HP in 2002.
The first Compaq PC was sketched out on a table napkin by Ted Papajohn while dining with the founders in a Houston restaurant.
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.
The Compaq Portable was the first in the range of the Compaq Portable series.
Compaq was able to market a legal IBM clone because IBM mostly used " off the shelf " parts for their PC.
The only part which had to be duplicated was the BIOS, which Compaq did legally by using clean room reverse engineering at a cost of $ 1 million.
It was considerably faster than an IBM PC and was, like the Compaq Portable, also capable of running IBM software.
It was Compaq's first non-portable computer and began the Compaq Deskpro line of computers.
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.
Support for the virtual 8086 mode was added by Compaq engineers.
Pfeiffer was given $ 20, 000 USD to start up Compaq Europe.
By 1990, Compaq Europe was a $ 2 billion business, and foreign sales contributed 54 percent of Compaq's revenues.
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 January 1998, Compaq was at its height.
By summer 1998, Compaq was suffering from product-quality problems.
Compaq was hit with two class-action lawsuits, as a result of several executives selling $ 50 million USD of stock before a conference call with analysts, where they noted that demand for PCs was slowing down.
On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.
" Rosen's priority was to have Compaq catchup as an E-commerce competitor, and he also moved to streamline operations and reduce the indecision that plagued the company.

Compaq and founded
Jim Harris is an American businessman, who, along with Rod Canion and Bill Murto, founded Compaq.

Compaq and February
The specification had support from major OEMs ( Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intergraph, NEC, Siemens Nixdorf, and UMAX ) and motherboard manufacturers ( Acer, Asus, Supermicro and Tyan ) and was updated ( 1. 1 ) in February 1999. the specification has been discontinued and the URL www. wtx. org no longer hosts a website and has not been owned by Intel since at least 2004.

Compaq and 1982
Compaq PortableIn November 1982 Compaq announced their first product, the Compaq Portable, a portable IBM PC compatible personal computer.
Compaq Computer Corp. announced its first IBM PC compatible in November 1982 —- the Compaq Portable.
* The 1982 introduction of the Compaq Portable, the first 100 % IBM PC compatible computer, providing portability unavailable from IBM at the time.
He returned the year after on December 29, 1982, for 1999 Tour ( other dates include: January 10 – 11, 13-14 & 16-17, 1985, on Purple Rain Tour, November 27, 1988, for Lovesexy Tour & December 31, 1997, on Jam Of The Year Tour-it has then been renamed Compaq Center ).

Compaq and by
The Compaq brand remained used by HP for lower-end systems.
Pfeiffer became President and CEO of Compaq in 1991, as a result of a boardroom coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen that forced co-founder Rod Canion to resign as President and CEO.
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.
The stock price of Compaq, which was around $ 25 when Capellas became CEO, was trading at half that by 2002.
An HP Compaq computer and an HP Deskjet 5740 printer owned by the Houston Independent School District
While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.
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.
Plus there were significant cultural differences between HP and Compaq ; which made decisions by consensus and rapid autocratic styles, respectively.
Former Compaq CEO Capellas was mentioned by some as a potential successor, but several months afterwards, Mark Hurd was hired as President and CEO of HP.
HP's Jornada PDAs were replaced by Compaq iPAQ PDAs, which were renamed HP iPAQ.
DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002.
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.
In response, a group of PC manufacturers ( the " Gang of Nine "), led by Compaq, created a new bus, which was named the Extended ( or Enhanced ) Industry Standard Architecture, or " EISA ".
Fortran 6 or Visual Fortran 2001 was licensed to Compaq by Microsoft.
GW-BASIC was a dialect of the programming language BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq.
The main architect of the system was Dave Cutler, one of the chief architects of VMS at Digital Equipment Corporation ( later acquired by Compaq, now part of Hewlett-Packard ).

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