Compaq Computer lived the Hank Williams life. It lived hard, became famous and died before its time. (See full coverage on the acquisition: "HP-Compaq: What happens now?") The PC giant, like many ...

The Compaq Alumni Group announced in early October that they will be celebrating the Compaq 30th Anniversary Reunion on November 4th, which also marks the 30th anniversary of the company’s first ...

HOUSTON – Huddled over a paper place mat at a Houston pie restaurant, three Texas Instruments workers sketched the design of what would become a 27-pound portable computer intended to run software for ...

Hewlett-Packard, one of Silicon Valley's most storied companies, is rewriting its history. The pioneering tech giant is famous for its much revered founders, William Hewlett and David Packard, who ...

On this day 21 years ago, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment in the largest buyout in the history of the computer industry. Where The Market Was The Dow closed at 8,811.77. The S&P 500 traded at around ...

January 1982 Former Texas Instruments manager Rod Canion comes up with the idea of a portable computer that runs all the programs that operate on the IBM PC without any modification. Canion, Jim ...

To hear Rod Canion and his fellow co-founders of Compaq Computer Corporation tell it, Compaq was an amazing company during its 20-year existence. From humble beginnings on farmland north of Houston to ...

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.com, ...

The proposed take-over of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard must be the biggest reorganisation in the history of the IT industry. These are changing times and both H-P and Compaq are to some extent being left ...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment in the largest buyout in the ...