Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledgling company and served as chairman of the board for 17 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas, who served as the last chairman and CEO until its merger with HP. Murto (SVP of sales) departed Compaq in 1987, while Canion (president and CEO) and Harris (SVP of engineering) left under a shakeup in 1991, which saw Eckhard Pfeiffer appointed president and CEO.
The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto, all former Texas Instruments senior managers. The Compaq brand remained in use by HP for lower-end systems until 2013 when it was discontinued. Struggling to keep up in the price wars against Dell, as well as with a risky acquisition of DEC, Compaq was acquired for US$25 billion by HP in 2002. It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems during the 1990s before being overtaken by HP in 2001. Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the second company after Columbia Data Products to legally reverse engineer the IBM Personal Computer. Desktops, notebooks, servers, telecom equipment, softwareĬompaq (a portmanteau of Compatibility and Quality, occasionally referred to as CQ prior to its final logo) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services.
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