On a recent drive down highway 249 in Houston I glanced to the left at the HP campus near Louetta Drive. As a native Houstonian who formerly lived near this campus, looking at this huge campus was ...

The Compaq Alumni Group announced in early October that they will be celebrating the Compaq 30th Anniversary Reunion on November 4th, which also marks the 30th anniversary of the company’s first ...

In 1981, Rod Canion had to make a decision, and fast. He could either continue at his day job, plugging away for the next two years on a project he knew ultimately wouldn't succeed in the current ...

Today, Compaq is little more than a memory, an extra brand-name slapped on the odd machine sold by aging computer giant HP. But there was a time when Compaq was big---so big it could hire John Cleese ...

Jason Cohen's documentary film "Silicon Cowboys" opens to the sounds of Weldon "Juke Boy" Bonner singing his definitive song about Houston. "Man, if you're looking for action," the late blues great ...

January 1982 Former Texas Instruments manager Rod Canion comes up with the idea of a portable computer that runs all the programs that operate on the IBM PC without any modification. Canion, Jim ...

Makers of portable computers have spent the past 20-odd years striving to build systems that answer users' cries for "smaller, faster, cheaper." To a large extent, they have succeeded. One notable ...

"Enjoy it while you can, because IBM's gunna have a portable and then it's sayonara." As a computer nerd, it's always fun to see documentaries that explore the history of computers. Silicon Cowboys ...

(Let's hope I'm posting this in the appropriate forum)<P>I just purchased an old Compaq Portable III "Lunchbox" computer on Ebay. Here is the link to the actual item with pictures.<P>I have fond ...

Who would have thought that a computer prototype sketched on the back of a Houston House of Pies place mat would prove to be a thorn in the side of IBM for the better part of the 1980s? That’s just ...

A fully functional portable computer that weighs in at only 29 lbs.? Now we’re talking. With features like word processing and a calculator, the 1984 LCD-286 PC computer was like carrying a filing ...

Conceived and created by Manuel Fernandez, founder of Gavilan Computer Corp., the Gavilan SC was an early laptop computer and was the first to actually be called such when marketed to consumers in May ...