Compaq was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three arch managers from semiconductor architect Texas Instruments. Each invested $1,000 to anatomy the company. Their aboriginal adventure basic came from Benjamin M. Rosen and Sevin Rosen Funds. The aboriginal Compaq PC was aboriginal sketched out on a placemat by Ted Papajohn while dining with the founders in a bounded Houston restaurant, House of Pies.[8] The aggregation was founded with the acting name Gateway Technology. The name "COMPAQ" was said to be acquired from "Compatibility and Quality" but this account was an afterthought. The name was called from abounding appropriate by Ogilvy and Mather (Houston office); it actuality the name atomic rejected.
Two key business admiral in Compaq's aboriginal years, Jim D'Arezzo and Sparky Sparks, had appear from IBM's PC Group. Added key admiral amenable for the company's brief advance in the backward 80s and aboriginal 90s were Ross A. Cooley, addition above IBM associate, who served for abounding years as SVP of GM North America; Michael Swavely, who was the company's arch business administrator in the aboriginal years, and eventually ran the North America organization, afterwards casual forth that albatross to Mr. Cooley, back Swavely retired. In the United States, Brendan A. "Mac" McLoughlin (another continued time IBM executive) led the company's acreage sales alignment afterwards starting up the Western U.S. Area of Operations. These able executives, forth with added key contributors, including Kevin Ellington, Douglas Johns, Steven Flannigan, and Gary Stimac, helped the aggregation with the IBM Corporation in all claimed computer sales categories, afterwards abounding predicted that none could attempt with the behemoth
Two key business admiral in Compaq's aboriginal years, Jim D'Arezzo and Sparky Sparks, had appear from IBM's PC Group. Added key admiral amenable for the company's brief advance in the backward 80s and aboriginal 90s were Ross A. Cooley, addition above IBM associate, who served for abounding years as SVP of GM North America; Michael Swavely, who was the company's arch business administrator in the aboriginal years, and eventually ran the North America organization, afterwards casual forth that albatross to Mr. Cooley, back Swavely retired. In the United States, Brendan A. "Mac" McLoughlin (another continued time IBM executive) led the company's acreage sales alignment afterwards starting up the Western U.S. Area of Operations. These able executives, forth with added key contributors, including Kevin Ellington, Douglas Johns, Steven Flannigan, and Gary Stimac, helped the aggregation with the IBM Corporation in all claimed computer sales categories, afterwards abounding predicted that none could attempt with the behemoth
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