Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation was a personal-computer manufacturer founded on February 16, 1982 in Houston, Texas by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three former Texas Instruments executives. It legally reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS and shipped the Compaq Portable in March 1983, then built out the Deskpro desktop line, the LTE notebook line, the Presario consumer line, and the SystemPro and ProLiant server lines, becoming the world's largest PC maker by 1994. Losing ground to Dell's direct-sales model and hit by the dot-com collapse, Compaq agreed to merge with Hewlett-Packard on September 4, 2001 in a $24.2 billion deal that closed on May 3, 2002. HP retired the Compaq brand entirely in North America and Europe in 2013 and has since licensed it regionally to third parties (Positivo Tecnologia in Brazil, Grupo Newsan in Argentina, Triden Corp in Mexico, Ossify Industries in India). Compaq predates the public web-API era and never published a developer program, public API, or SDK of its own; the compaq.com domain is still registered to HP Inc. but serves no website. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

Compaq is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Acquired, Personal Computers, and Hardware.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDefunctAcquiredPersonal ComputersHardwareLaptopsServersEnterprise IT

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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

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: compaq
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/compaq.png
name: Compaq
description: Compaq Computer Corporation was a personal-computer manufacturer founded on February 16, 1982 in Houston, Texas
  by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three former Texas Instruments executives. It legally reverse-engineered the IBM
  PC BIOS and shipped the Compaq Portable in March 1983, then built out the Deskpro desktop line, the LTE notebook line, the
  Presario consumer line, and the SystemPro and ProLiant server lines, becoming the world's largest PC maker by 1994. Losing
  ground to Dell's direct-sales model and hit by the dot-com collapse, Compaq agreed to merge with Hewlett-Packard on September
  4, 2001 in a $24.2 billion deal that closed on May 3, 2002. HP retired the Compaq brand entirely in North America and Europe
  in 2013 and has since licensed it regionally to third parties (Positivo Tecnologia in Brazil, Grupo Newsan in Argentina,
  Triden Corp in Mexico, Ossify Industries in India). Compaq predates the public web-API era and never published a developer
  program, public API, or SDK of its own; the compaq.com domain is still registered to HP Inc. but serves no website. This
  profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/compaq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: hp
x-acquired-date: '2002-05-03'
x-shutdown-date: '2013-01-01'
x-shutdown-note: HP discontinued the Compaq brand in North America and Europe in 2013; the name survives only under regional
  trademark licences (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, India) operated by unrelated manufacturers.
x-domain-status: parked-by-acquirer
x-domain-note: compaq.com resolves (A 15.72.22.98) on HP nameservers (ns1-ns6.hp.com) and is registered to HP Inc. via MarkMonitor,
  created 1995-04-20, expiry 2027-04-21, with all three clientDelete/Transfer/UpdateProhibited locks set. It serves no HTTP
  or HTTPS content — both ports 80 and 443 time out — and www., developer., api., docs. and support.compaq.com are all NXDOMAIN.
  Mail is fully disavowed (SPF "v=spf1 -all"); _dmarc.compaq.com CNAMEs to HP's _dmarc.ext.hp.com with p=reject. No CAA and
  no DNSSEC. It is a defensively held brand domain, not a live property, and is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer.
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Personal Computers
- Hardware
- Laptops
- Servers
- Enterprise IT
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1