Word: compaq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...microchip. It is this flat, black chip -- smaller than a matchbook -- that has powered the biggest advance in computer technology in recent memory. The 80386 brings to personal computers the speed and power that were once available only in larger and much more expensive minicomputers. IBM, Compaq and Tandy have built new high-end machines around this chip, which is made by California-based Intel. Apple uses a Motorola-produced chip that gives its Macintosh machines comparable speed and power...
...beauty of all the latest whizbangs is that they can be bought without taking out a second mortgage. Fierce price competition has enabled customers to pay less than they would have a few months ago, or to get a better machine for the same amount of money. Compaq's new Portable III computer, which is being pitched to executives, sells for as little as $3,200. In February the same model sold for $3,999. Prices on other computers that have been introduced this year are also falling. Some Houston retailers will sell an IBM Model...
What particularly disturbed Akers and his lieutenants were the inroads being made in the office market by rival machines that can use IBM software -- the so-called IBM-compatibles such as those made by Tandy and Compaq. In response, IBM decided to make its Personal System/2 computers strikingly different from its original PCs. It did: the new models are more powerful and versatile. Their software, which will not run on the old machines, comes on 3.5-in. hard- case diskettes instead of the 5.25-in. floppy disk that had been IBM's standard...
...Compaq President Rod Canion, 42, seems ready for the challenge. Only 4 1/2 years ago Canion, a former Texas Instruments engineer, joined two associates to found Compaq. He led the company to quick success by bringing out compact, top-performing IBM-compatible machines at competitive prices and by cultivating a loyal network of dealers. Today the company (1986 revenues: $625 million) is enjoying its second year in the FORTUNE 500 (ranking: No. 409). Its $51 million in profits for the first six months of 1987 represents a 185% gain over the year earlier...
While IBM, Compaq and Tandy fight it out in the IBM-compatible marketplace, Apple (1986 revenues: $2 billion) continues to thrive by going its own way with machines that run on different software. The company's products have long been favored by educators and hobbyists, but now more corporate customers are taking a shine to the newest machines at the core of Apple's line: the Macintosh SE and the Macintosh II. Many executives have decided that Apple's machines are more user friendly than comparable IBM models. Apple's success in the office market is largely the work...