aid: compaq-computer-corporation
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-computer-corporation.png
name: Compaq Computer Corporation
description: '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.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/compaq-computer-corporation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Computing
- Hardware
- Personal Computers
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence