The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor screen and a handle. At an arm-extending 25 to 30 ...

continued with Compaq Computer Corp. in the '80s and '90s and faded as Asia dominated the arena. Part of a $500 billion investment in U.S. technology over the next four years, the Houston project ...

Besides his well-documented reign at the now-bankrupt Enron, Lay also served on the board of Compaq Computer from 1987 until early this decade. He quit that board just before Hewlett-Packard ...