Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor ...

the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable. Gavilan Computer Corp. declared bankruptcy and closed in 1985.

The Compaq Portable III from 1987 is but one such kit, and while it was designed to be carried around, it resembles more of a suitcase than the laptops we have in this day and age. Still ...

continued with Compaq Computer Corp. in the '80s and '90s and faded as Asia dominated the arena. Part of a $500 billion investment in U.S. technology over the next four years, the Houston project ...

Much of his team, however, will come from Compaq. The business PC side under Zitzner will be handled by Jeri Callaway, currently vice president and general manager of Compaq's Access Business Group.