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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.

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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.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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