COMPAQ (1982 – 2002) went bankrupt

[Starmix]

My first laptop was Compaq. It was bought in Auckland, New Zealand. It is almost 15 years old now and it is still with me. The problem with this laptop is the expiration of its battery and I cannot find a battery for it. It is sized 21 and is heavy. And then I went to tech company and was told that he would order from Manila but up to this time, there is no available battery. I learned through my search on the web that Compaq was one of the largest sellers of PCs in the entire world in the 1980s and 1990s and the first to produce some of the IBM PC-compatible computers, but it ultimately struggled to keep up with the price against Dell and was acquired for US $25 billion by HP in 2002. But in 2013. it discontinued in 2013 and was not anymore in the market. It is an example of a business that went wrong because of competitors.

 

[Augusta]

Sure, one of the issue that kills a business very fast is high competition. With good competitors you need to do more for your business to still exist

 

[neku]

Compaq desktops were of good quality, I was using them and purchasing them regularly. I usually do not purchase HP computers because they are very expensive, and one laptop was not of good quality.

 

[Webster]

one of the issue that kills a business very fast is high competition.

What ultimately killed Compaq as a company wasn't so much the competition as it was Compaq's inability to adapt as the PC industry changed and adapted during the 90's when Microsoft was the king of the PC world (through its' Windows OS systems) and a mix of external mergers and internal corporate problems that ultimately doomed them.

There was also Compaq's arrogant boast in the late 90's that said that the Wintel duopoly of Windows & Intel would be supplanted by the triopoly of Wintelpaq (Windows, Intel and Compaq). Suffice it to say, Windows & Intel are still around....

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usually do not purchase HP computers because they are very expensive, and one laptop was not of good quality.

I've owned a few HP computers over the years (a 6005 desktop w/Windows 7 for instance) and currently a refurbished HP Chromebook laptop and they've both worked pretty darn well.

 

[Augusta]

Yes,with competition very fierce. The solution is to bring in something that would still drive in customers to still want to buy.

 

[Starmix]

I am still hoping that there will be agents who can help me contact sellers of a Compaq laptop. My Compaq laptop is very durable.