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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.
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+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.
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[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.dyndns.org/network/#slate] is [Criggie]'s Compaq Concerto.
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-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.
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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