Compaq Computer Corporation

Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal-computer company founded in 1982 in Houston, Texas by Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto. It pioneered IBM PC-compatible portable computers with the 1983 Compaq Portable and grew into one of the largest PC manufacturers of the 1990s, acquiring Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998. Compaq merged with Hewlett-Packard in 2002; the brand was gradually retired and its operations absorbed into HP. It survives in the API Evangelist network as a historical portfolio-company profile (backed by kleiner-perkins); it operates no present-day developer portal, public API, or SDK surface, as compaq.com now resolves to HP infrastructure.

Compaq Computer Corporation is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Computing, Hardware, and Personal Computers.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEnterpriseComputingHardwarePersonal ComputersDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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description: Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal-computer company founded in 1982 in Houston, Texas by Rod
  Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto. It pioneered IBM PC-compatible portable computers with the 1983 Compaq Portable and
  grew into one of the largest PC manufacturers of the 1990s, acquiring Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998. Compaq merged
  with Hewlett-Packard in 2002; the brand was gradually retired and its operations absorbed into HP. It survives in the API
  Evangelist network as a historical portfolio-company profile (backed by kleiner-perkins); it operates no present-day developer
  portal, public API, or SDK surface, as compaq.com now resolves to HP infrastructure.
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