Many great ideas are written on paper napkins. That is exactly what happened when three men came together to create a portable personal computer manufacturing company. Leaving their jobs at Texas Instruments, Rod Camon, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, each up to $ 1000 and put their ideas on a napkin at a pastry shop in Houston.
These ideas became reality in 1982. At the end of the first year of Compaq, its initial public offering was more than $ 67 million on the NASDAQ. They sent more than 53,000 laptop computers, and set a record income of over $ 111 million during its first year. Only a few years later broke records Compaq revenue and was ranked as the fastest company to make the Fortune 500 list. They were the first in the world of the PC market in 1995 due to the expansion of its products and the evolution of several desktops, laptops and pen computers.
Many things happened in the coming years in Compaq. Events as a great recognition in Forbes magazine, after the agreements with Radio Shack, the purchase of DEC, and the name of Alta Vista. Products such as the iPAQ Pocket PC iPAQ Home Internet Appliance and were released, and recognition as a leader in wireless technology. Compaq has also worked with the company Walt Disney Co., Microsoft, Starbucks and Yahoo. HP to find the success of this company very attractive and merged with Compaq in 2002, creating a $ 87 billion global technology company.
Products that Compaq is the brand are: laptops, computers, laptops, printers, digital cameras, televisions and accessories. Also have mixed some of the products with their names and HP. These include: iPAQ GPS systems, PDA's, phones and PDAs.
Compaq is also known as one of the first companies to introduce the "build to order" option. This allows consumers to choose among several options to complete the team to suit your personal needs. The options you can choose are: operating system, processor type and speed, screen, memory, graphics cards, network, hard drive, CD / DVD and many other accessories. These options are installed on the base with default options selected model-pr. Once you have stated your choices, your computer is built and then shipped.
This is a great choice for computer users with the experience to know the options you need to run your computer. If you ever wanted something different to the way that computers are set out in the stores, this option may be for you.