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Compaq: Gone but not forgotten. The best-selling PC brand in the late 1980s and 1990s
The year was 1982 and computers were no longer taking up a full room, but PCs were still far from portable. Three entrepreneurs founded Compaq to make...
The name represented the company's vision, which was to take on the behemoth known as International Business Machines (IBM) and to make an IBM-compatible PC that was as powerful their top-of-the-line desktop unit but in a smaller, more portable form factor. The Compaq Portable was about the size of the typical PC towers that we have today, but the all-in-one contained everything one would need for computing on the go, including a 9-inch monochrome monitor and a snap-out keyboard. The board wanted to change things up, but Canion insisted on continuing to do what had made the company famous – selling high-end business machines to enterprise dealers at a wide profit margin.
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