COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION
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A US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatiblepersonal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982by three ex-Texas Instruments employees and by 1995 hadbecome the largest PC manufacturer.Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994).Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2004. (http://compaq.com/).
By Denis Howe
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