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The Compaq Portable was announced in November 1982 and first shipped in March 1983, [11] priced at US$2,995 (equivalent to $9,500 in 2024) with a single half-height 5 + 1 ⁄ 4" 360 KB diskette drive or US$3,590 for dual, full-height diskette drives.
Compaq was overtaken by Dell as the top global PC maker in 1999. [8] Compaq briefly regained the top spot in 2000 before being overtaken again by Dell in 2001. [9] Struggling to keep up in the price wars against Dell, as well as with a risky acquisition of DEC in 1998, [10] Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) for US$25 billion in 2002.
The Compaq Portable was announced in November 1982 and first shipped in March 1983, [2] priced at US$2,995 (equivalent to $9,200 in 2023) with a single half-height 5¼" 360 kB diskette drive or $3,590 for dual, full-height diskette drives. The 28 lb (13 kg) Compaq Portable folded up into a luggable case the size of a portable sewing machine.
Compaq only had 286 motherboards ready for mass production, so the 386 version, the Compaq Portable 386, would follow about one year later. [1] The design of the Portable III had been deeply modified over the earlier Compaq portable series of machines. It was half the size and its footprint occupied half the space of the first Compaq Portable.
The PJB was created as a personal audio appliance prototype by DEC Systems Research Center and Palo Alto Advanced Development group (PAAD). The project started in May 1998, a month before the Digital Equipment Corporation merger into Compaq was completed, and a final product was brought to market in November 1999.
AlphaStation is the name given to a series of computer workstations, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.As the name suggests, the AlphaStations were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor.
The included management tool for the PJB is the Jukebox Manager (the latest Windows version is v1.5.6). It is a pretty basic application which can create/delete/manage Sets, Discs and Tracks (when uploading, the user can choose which ID3-tag will represent which level).
The ProLinea was notorious for touching off a fierce price war in the personal computer market from its launch in June 1992. [4] [5] Under a directive from Compaq's recent CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, the company originally sold lower-end models in the range for under US$900—a price that was virtually unheard of for brand-new desktops from a major computer vendor.