What was your first computer growing up?
September 22, 2026 at 10:09 PM
What was your first computer growing up?
I never knew it, but I need a Compaq hat
October 29, 2024 at 12:07 PM
I never knew it, but I need a Compaq hat
Time to look at this thing I picked up from VCF Midwest. Compaq portable 386
September 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Time to look at this thing I picked up from VCF Midwest. Compaq portable 386
logging on
March 22, 2026 at 8:02 AM
logging on
tim apple right now for the first time in his career asking himself if leaving compaq was the right call
TRUMP on EPSTEIN: The whole thing is a hoax. It’s just a way to divert attention to something that is total bullshit
August 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
tim apple right now for the first time in his career asking himself if leaving compaq was the right call
it’s our era’s mclaren compaq
August 20, 2026 at 2:13 PM
it’s our era’s mclaren compaq
This baby is so powerful it can run Half-Life 2 at 20fps
October 22, 2024 at 2:51 AM
This baby is so powerful it can run Half-Life 2 at 20fps
He looks like if someone made him the white Common to pitch a Compaq smartphone.
May 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
He looks like if someone made him the white Common to pitch a Compaq smartphone.
The Compaq SLT/286, the first laptop ever released by Compaq in 1988.
July 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Compaq SLT/286, the first laptop ever released by Compaq in 1988.
I didn’t mean Compuserve. I meant Compaq.
Wrong company whose time has passed.
Wrong company whose time has passed.
May 28, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I didn’t mean Compuserve. I meant Compaq.
Wrong company whose time has passed.
Wrong company whose time has passed.
Got myself a Compaq windows 98 laptop. Let the DOS gaming begin.
February 25, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Got myself a Compaq windows 98 laptop. Let the DOS gaming begin.
Next up in my Silicon Valley history column after Tramiel is Compaq and Rod Canion.
I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM.
Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS.
I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM.
Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS.
December 11, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Next up in my Silicon Valley history column after Tramiel is Compaq and Rod Canion.
I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM.
Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS.
I get to tell the story about how Compaq got so good at cloning MS DOS for the PC that Bill Gates secretly agreed to licence MS DOS off THEM.
Every MS DOS install on a PC Clone after 1983 was actually Compaq DOS.
Okay, thanks to the excellent search skills of my followers, I now share with you the Compaq Corporate Leadership Rap, circa. 1990.
And no, I'm not sorry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M...
And no, I'm not sorry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M...
PaqRap - Compaq VPs, 1990
YouTube video by CompaqVet
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Okay, thanks to the excellent search skills of my followers, I now share with you the Compaq Corporate Leadership Rap, circa. 1990.
And no, I'm not sorry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M...
And no, I'm not sorry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M...
Essentially IBM managed to HELP Compaq rather than hurt them, by inducing demand for portables then leaving Compaq with a better product on the market, before IBM had shipped a unit.
Compaq was outselling IBM on portables 10 to 1 with a year.
Compaq was outselling IBM on portables 10 to 1 with a year.
January 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Essentially IBM managed to HELP Compaq rather than hurt them, by inducing demand for portables then leaving Compaq with a better product on the market, before IBM had shipped a unit.
Compaq was outselling IBM on portables 10 to 1 with a year.
Compaq was outselling IBM on portables 10 to 1 with a year.
I forgot to put Winamp on my Win98 machine.
I decided to fix that.
I decided to fix that.
November 9, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I forgot to put Winamp on my Win98 machine.
I decided to fix that.
I decided to fix that.
Compaq SLT 286 (1988)
October 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Compaq SLT 286 (1988)
Fun fact: if you'd driven round Houston today in 1984 and looked carefully, you'd have spotted identical near-unmarked 18-wheeler trailers parked all over the place.
Look closer, and you'd see they were all marked 'Compaq'.
They contained HUNDREDS of Compaq portable PCs stashed in plain sight /1
Look closer, and you'd see they were all marked 'Compaq'.
They contained HUNDREDS of Compaq portable PCs stashed in plain sight /1
January 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Fun fact: if you'd driven round Houston today in 1984 and looked carefully, you'd have spotted identical near-unmarked 18-wheeler trailers parked all over the place.
Look closer, and you'd see they were all marked 'Compaq'.
They contained HUNDREDS of Compaq portable PCs stashed in plain sight /1
Look closer, and you'd see they were all marked 'Compaq'.
They contained HUNDREDS of Compaq portable PCs stashed in plain sight /1
I now own a 25 year old Compaq / Williams Racing jacket
April 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I now own a 25 year old Compaq / Williams Racing jacket
WASHINGTON - America’s aging air traffic control system — reliant on outdated telecom systems, decades-old Compaq computers and replacement parts bought on eBay — keeps failing.
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
U.S. air traffic vulnerabilities exposed by old computers, severed cables and stalled upgrades
America’s aging air traffic control system — reliant on outdated telecom systems, decades-old Compaq computers and replacement parts bought on eBay — keeps failing.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
WASHINGTON - America’s aging air traffic control system — reliant on outdated telecom systems, decades-old Compaq computers and replacement parts bought on eBay — keeps failing.
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
gonna tell kids I fought in the Clone wars:
April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
gonna tell kids I fought in the Clone wars:
compaq was definitely trying super duper hard when they made the Evo D5S
October 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
compaq was definitely trying super duper hard when they made the Evo D5S
...but you're better off buying a Compaq.
February 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
...but you're better off buying a Compaq.