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This PC Card snafu was a major factor in Compaq's decision to cancel their Concerto tablet in August 1994. [22] In late November 1994, Compaq again briefly suspended production of the LTE Elite in their Houston factory after discovering a bug in their BIOS ROM that prevented the units from recognizing RAM upgrades over 16 MB.
In the 1990s, as IBM's own PC division declined, Compaq faced other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers like Dell, Packard Bell, AST Research, and Gateway 2000. By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven out from the market.
It was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq Portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. It was not simply an 8088 - CPU computer that ran a Microsoft DOS as a PC "work-alike", but contained a reverse-engineered BIOS , and a version of MS-DOS that was so similar to IBM 's PC DOS that it ran ...
The name was borrowed from Compaq's earlier iPAQ Desktop Personal Computers. The iPAQ was developed by Compaq based on the SA-1110 "Assabet" and SA-1111 "Neponset" reference boards that were engineered by a StrongARM development group located at Digital Equipment Corporation's Hudson Massachusetts facility. At the time when these boards were in ...
Compaq Portable Plus – Compaq's version with built-in hard drive; Compaq Portable 286 – Compaq's version of the PC AT in the original Compaq Portable chassis; [1] equipped with 6/8-MHz 286 and a high-speed 20-MB hard drive; Compaq Portable II – smaller and lighter version of Compaq Portable 286; it was less expensive but with limited ...
Compaq only had 286 motherboards ready for mass production, so the 386 version, the Compaq Portable 386, would follow about one year later. [1] The design of the Portable III had been deeply modified over the earlier Compaq portable series of machines. It was half the size and its footprint occupied half the space of the first Compaq Portable.
The last in the LTE line, [47]: C2 [48] the LTE 5000 series was the debut of Intel's multimedia-oriented Pentium processor in a Compaq laptop. It was also Compaq's first laptop with built-in 16-bit audio synthesis and playback (beyond the PC speaker); hardware acceleration for video; and an infrared port for communicating with PDAs.
The LTE Lite was a series of notebook-sized laptops under the LTE line manufactured by Compaq from 1992 to 1994. The first entries in the series were Compaq's first computers after co-founder Rod Canion's ousting and Eckhard Pfeiffer's tenure as the new CEO. The notebooks were co-developed and manufactured by Compaq and Citizen Watch of Japan.