Secluded behind the security-coded doors of Compaq Computer Corp.’s design studio, Randall Martin opens what appears to be a typical black laptop, snaps out the keyboard and mouse, and adjusts ...

Compaq blew the lid off the PC compatibles market with the release of the DeskPro 386, the first computer in the world to use the then-supercharged Intel 386 CPU.

Hewlett-Packard Co., the fabled Silicon Valley computer maker, announced last night that it will purchase rival Compaq Computer Corp. for $25 billion in stock, as the two companies struggle to ...

HOUSTON -- Compaq Computer Corp. says it is owed $94 million as a result of a dispute with computer distributor Inacom Corp., which filed for bankruptcy-court protection from creditors last week ...

Hewlett-Packard plans to buy Compaq Computer in a stock swap worth about $25 billion, creating a technology company second in revenue only to IBM. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. shocked the slumping technology world yesterday, announcing plans to buy Houston computer maker Compaq Computer Corp. in a $25 billion stock swap that would create one of the ...

October 1992 Compaq moved to shake up the computer server business with two models that were low-cost at the time. Compaq's two new lines included the low-end ProSignia, with prices starting as ...

Compaq Presario CDS 524 and Compaq Presario 2240 : a showcase of a typical home computer from the 1990s. Compaq then attempted to get into the $4 billion-a-year networking business by partnering ...

HOUSTON — Eckhard Pfeiffer spent his first full week as chief executive officer huddled in lengthy strategy and organizational sessions with his top lieutenants at Compaq Computer Corp. And the ...

Top management didn't have much to crow about when Compaq Computer issued second-quarter results last week. Sales and earnings had plummeted and CEO Michael Capellas cautioned Wall Street not to ...