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 ...

expensive--are front-runners for applications needing massive computing power, such as the New York Stock Exchange. But Compaq, sensing a market for new clients, is moving to broaden their appeal and ...

Before being bought, Digital trimmed subsidiaries in an effort to get smaller. Compaq Computer, meanwhile, keeps acquiring companies to bulk up. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...