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13 unusual facts about Compaq


Bassersdorf

Compaq at one point operated its Switzerland offices in Bassersdorf.

Beny Alagem

In the mid-1990s, Packard Bell lost market share as Compaq started to undercut its prices.

Deborah Blumer

Prior to her election to the House in 2000, she worked for several businesses, including Compaq.

Dependeq

The artificial word "dependeq" is said having been created by Herbert Weissenbaeck after incidentally reading Jeffrey Robinson's Book "The Manipulators" while waiting for a delayed plane at London Heathrow Airport and studying the roots of other carefully crafted company names like "Sony" or "Compaq".

Energy management system

As proprietary systems became uneconomical, EMS suppliers began to deliver solutions based on industry standard hardware platforms such as those from Digital Equipment (later Compaq), HP, IBM and Sun.

Familiar Linux

In May 2000, Alexander Guy took a kernel that had been worked on by Compaq programmers, built a complete Linux distribution around it, and released the first version of Familiar (v0.1).

Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

Compaq at one point operated its Puerto Rico offices in Hato Rey.

HP BASIC for OpenVMS

When DEC was purchased by Compaq in 1997/98, the products were renamed Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS VAX and Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha.

Likewise, when Compaq merged with HP in 2001/02, the products were renamed HP BASIC for OpenVMS on VAX and HP BASIC for OpenVMS on AlphaServer.

HTML+TIME

HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS.

Intercast

Also at the time of Intercast's introduction, Compaq offered some models of computers with built-in TV tuners installed with the Intercast Viewer software.

OPIE user interface

Compaq / HP IPAQ series 31xx, 36xx, 37xx, 38xx, 39xx, 54xx, 55xx, 22xx, 41xx, 43xx, 47xx

Radiant Logic

The new product category gained widespread attention throughout the software industry, garnering accolades and prominent customers like Compaq, who soon implemented RadiantOne for its NonStop Himalaya server.


AlphaStation

AlphaStation was the name given to a series of computer workstations, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.

Michael Capellas

His efforts resulted in Compaq becoming Microsoft's key strategic partner for the release of its Windows 2000 operating system.

Open Cluster Framework

Original supporters included several computing companies and groups, including Compaq, Conectiva, IBM, Linux-HA, MSC Software, the Open Source Development Lab, OSCAR, Red Hat, SGI and SUSE.

Paul Mobley

Since then, Mobley has worked with a range of celebrity, corporate, advertising, and editorial clients, including American Express, Sony, Citigroup, Ford, Compaq, Gourmet, Max Factor, Chevrolet, and Microsoft.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

FLEX-ES must run on the machine with which it was sold; in the past, this included Compaq Proliant and HP servers, but today this is nearly always an approved IBM xSeries server or a ThinkPad laptop.