Many good ideas are written on paper towels. That is exactly what happened when three men came together to create a laptop production. Leave their jobs to Texas Instruments, Rod Camon, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, each put up $ 1000 and their ideas on a napkin in Houston pie shop. These ideas became reality in 1982. At the end of the first year of Compaq, the initial public offering was over $ 67 million on the NASDAQ. They are then shipped 53,000 notebooks, and a record over $ 111 million during the first year. A few years later, Compaq broke revenue records and was named as the fastest company in the Fortune 500. They were the first in the worldwide PC market share in 1995 as a result of their product, improvements and developments of individual workstations, laptops and pen.

Many things have happened in the years ahead Compaq. Events such as the great appreciation of Forbes Magazine, whose contracts with Radio Shack, buy and DEC Alta Vista name. Products such as the iPAQ Pocket PC and iPAQ Home Internet Appliance has been released, and the recognition of the leader in wireless technology. You also worked with the Walt Disney Co, Microsoft, Starbucks and Yahoo. HP to find the success of this very attractive and the merger with Compaq in 2002, creating a $ 87 billion of the world’s technology.

Products you will find the Compaq brand: notebooks, PCs, handhelds, printers, digital cameras, televisions, and accessories. They also blended some of their names and products with HP. These include: iPAQ GPS, PDA and PDA phones.

Compaq is also known as one of the first companies to “Build to Order” option. This allows consumers to choose among several options to the computer that fits their personal needs. Options, you can choose are: system operation, the processor type and speed, screen, memory, graphics cards, networking, hard disk, CD / DVD and many other accessories. These options are installed on the “basic” model with standard options pre-selected. Once you have entered your choices, the computer is built, then shipped.

Is it a perfect option for computer users with the experience to know what options they need for their computers. If you’ve always wanted something different from the way computers are put on the shelf, this option could be for you.