Originally Posted by
DYKWIA
I had a tiny Compaq Aero notebook as my first portable. Well, it seemed tiny at the time
It ran Windows 3.0 in many shades of grey. I think they brought a colour version out later.
Until HP bought them out and murdered their company (and DEC),
Compaq made great stuff.
For those who read OMNI,
see here.
Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
I used some of their gear in the early 90s and it was always good.
I don't think I saw any of their (HP's) PCs quite that early; my negative experiences started probably around 1996-1997 when I started doing consulting work, but I don't recall seeing consumer-market PCs from them before that. It looks from
wikipedia like they introduced their Pavilion line in 1995.
They had some very weird non-standard case and board construction in some of those, which on top of bad reliability made me absolutely HATE when customers turned out to have them.
Not quite as cr*ppy as Packard Bell, or (a little later) eMachines, but... bleh.
I think they had some better business-line PCs at the time, but I rarely saw them.