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Compaq is a computer company. They are the people that invented the IBM Compatible (clone) PC. They were bought by HP in 2003.

Compaq's lineage of machines:

  • Presarios are "Home quality" desktops/laptops. That is, shit.
  • Deskpro is the business line of desktops, ending around the P233.
  • Evo are the Business line of laptops.
  • Proliant/Prosignia are servers, with weird boards generally, but lots of GO.

Linux on lots of Compaq laptops http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/compaq.html

http://www.compaq.com/ has lots of service packs (called !RomPaqs?)

http://criggie.org.nz/network/#slate was CraigFalconer's Compaq Concerto.

BIOS access on a Compaq - Press F10 repeatedly when the block cursor appears in the top right corner of the screen. Normally about the point where the machine beeps twice. A good proportion of the Compaq machines have their system software stored in a "diagnostics" partition, which is often sized from 500 kilobytes to 10 or 20 megabytes, and is positioned at the front of the first hard drive, but is partition 3, aka /dev/hda3. You can download these files from www.compaq.com (somewhere)

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