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IBM sold a mouse with a pointing stick in the location where a scroll wheel is common now. A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking.
Toshiba overtook Compaq as the top laptop maker in the United States in 1994 and 1995, helped along with their Satellite line of laptops. [31] [32] As a result of this upset, in early 1995, Compaq hired Inventec of Taiwan to co-design and manufacture in full the followup LTE 5000. The partnership not only hastened development of a successor but ...
An HP Compaq laptop. In 2009, HP sold part of Compaq's former headquarters to the Lone Star College System. [134] On August 18, 2011, then-CEO of HP Léo Apotheker announced plans for a partial or full spinoff of the Personal Systems Group. The PC unit had the lowest profit margin although it accounted for nearly a third of HP's overall ...
Armada is a discontinued line of business laptops by Compaq.They started as a more affordable version of the Contura line, but after that, they replaced Contura as a mainstream laptop line, and then the high-end Compaq LTE line were merged with Armada as a premium 7300 and 7700 sub-lines.
The Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 and 4/33c were among the earliest subnotebook computers that acted as a precursor to netbooks. They were released in 1994 and originally ran MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 . They were also able to run Windows 95 after its release in 1995.
It was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq Portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. It was not simply an 8088-CPU computer that ran a Microsoft DOS as a PC "work-alike", but contained a reverse-engineered BIOS, and a version of MS-DOS that was so similar to IBM's PC DOS that it ran nearly ...
The Presario-based series laptop (N800 and N1000) uses a desktop-based Pentium 4 CPU. [17] Known near-clone laptop models: Evo N110 - Armada 110 [18] Evo N400c - Armada M300; Evo N800 series - Presario 2800 [12] Evo N1000/N1020 - Presario 1500 [19] Evo N1005 - Presario 900 [20] The final model to carry the Compaq Evo name was the 14.1" N620c ...
The Compaq Concerto was a detachable laptop computer made by Compaq, introduced in 1993. [1] Concerto was the first tablet computer manufactured by Compaq on a large scale, and can be considered a very early form of a 2-in-1 PC .