# Compaq Computer Corporation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/compaq-computer-corporation/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Enterprise, Computing, Hardware, Personal Computers, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/compaq-computer-corporation/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.