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.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
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