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=Description=
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Compaq Computer Corporation was founded by three ex Texas Instruments engineers: Rod Canion, Bill Murto, and Bill Harris,in Houston Texas, in 1982.  Initially planning to create a chain of quality Mexican restaurants, they sketched up an idea for a portable PC on a pie plate or napkin at Houston's House of Pies, put in an initial capital investment of $3000, and with some clever maneuvering of engineering and legality, created what many consider to be the first 100% compatible clone of the IBM PC, the Compaq Portable.  From there, they created the venerable DeskPro line of machines for the desktop and became one of the star players of the industry.  In 1986 they beat IBM to the punch a full nine months introducing the DeskPro 386, the first fully 32-bit PC to market.  As the 1990's carried on though, quality and personnel changes within the company wore down their once golden crown of "compatibility" and "quality" (that's where the name "Compaq" comes from), and they were sold to Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2001, where they are used as a second brand these days.
  
 
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* [[Compaq ProLinea 4/25s]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 4/25s]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 4/33s]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 4/33s]]
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* [[Compaq Prolinea 4/50]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 3/25s]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 3/25s]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs]]
 
* [[Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs]]
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* [[Compaq Prolinea 5100e]]
 
* [[Compaq Prolinea 5100e]]
 
* [[Compaq Prolinea 5100]]
 
* [[Compaq Prolinea 5100]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 433]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5204]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5204]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5600]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5600]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 5665]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5441]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5441]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 5280]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5190]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5190]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5185]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5185]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 5000]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5000]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5070]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 5070]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 5080]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7994]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7994]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7470]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7470]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 7485]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7485]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7222]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7222]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 7232]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7000US]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 7000US]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2266]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2266]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 2255]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2255]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2240]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2240]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 2200]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2110]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 2110]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4160]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4160]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 4660]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4660]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4770]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4770]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 4808]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4824]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 4824]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 425]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 425]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 633]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 633]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 866]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 866]]
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* [[Compaq Presario CDS 520]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDS 774]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDS 774]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDS 833]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDS 833]]
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* [[Compaq Presario CDS 944]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDS 944]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDTV 978]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario CDTV 978]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 9232]]
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* [[Compaq Presario 9546]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 9548]]
 
* [[Compaq Presario 9548]]
 
* [[Compaq Deskpro 286]]
 
* [[Compaq Deskpro 286]]
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* [[Compaq Armada 4120]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 4120]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 4131T]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 4131T]]
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* [[Compaq Armada 4150]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1520DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1520DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1530DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1530DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1535DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1535DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1540DM]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1540DM]]
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* [[Compaq Armada 1580DMT]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1700]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1700]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1750]]
 
* [[Compaq Armada 1750]]
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====Other====
 
====Other====
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* [[Compaq Contura 400]]
 
* [[Compaq Contura 410C]]
 
* [[Compaq Contura 410C]]
 
* [[Compaq Contura 420C]]
 
* [[Compaq Contura 420C]]

Revision as of 12:07, 26 September 2022

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Description

Compaq Computer Corporation was founded by three ex Texas Instruments engineers: Rod Canion, Bill Murto, and Bill Harris,in Houston Texas, in 1982. Initially planning to create a chain of quality Mexican restaurants, they sketched up an idea for a portable PC on a pie plate or napkin at Houston's House of Pies, put in an initial capital investment of $3000, and with some clever maneuvering of engineering and legality, created what many consider to be the first 100% compatible clone of the IBM PC, the Compaq Portable. From there, they created the venerable DeskPro line of machines for the desktop and became one of the star players of the industry. In 1986 they beat IBM to the punch a full nine months introducing the DeskPro 386, the first fully 32-bit PC to market. As the 1990's carried on though, quality and personnel changes within the company wore down their once golden crown of "compatibility" and "quality" (that's where the name "Compaq" comes from), and they were sold to Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2001, where they are used as a second brand these days.

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