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Criticism

A criticism section should be added for this company in order to better balance it out with other companies (Microsoft, Apple, Dell, ect...) simply for the sake of objectivity. One must look at the whole picture of a company afterall, not just the positive if they wish to have a truly informed opinion... hence why I think the Microsoft, Apple Computer and Dell, Inc. pages are soo good.

I'd agree,their low cost brings them to be used as schools and they break down a lot. I saw a news report where compaq was the most repaired computer out of all brands testedZakTek 12:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Data with references talks, anecdotal allegations walks. If you wish to add something to the article, please do so. Ken (talk) 16:09, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

HP Merger and Post-Merger is a bit too long.

These sections are a bit digressive and contain too much detail to be pertinent to this article Landroo (talk) 04:55, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. This content is more relevant to HP than to Compaq and is redundant here. Raran75 (talk) 20:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Headquarters

Two sections say that the Compaq campus is now the U.S. headquarters. I don't know if this was once true, but it is not true today (2012). The main Compaq campus was in Houston, TX, and the HP headquarters is in Palo Alto, CA. I did not change the text since I don't have a reference to cite, but hopefully someone with more knowledge of the subject will take care of this. Raran75 (talk) 20:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

As I am unfamiliar with the quality needed for citation, can this help out this page as a source?

And if one looks at the Tandem page, the same claims about NonStop is made there, but with no citation.

http://www.markwhitfield.net/TandemComputersTimelineHistoryHPNonStop/tabid/180/Default.aspx

ISA

EISA is mentioned very late in the article. ISA should already be part of the history of what started the company well before we get to ISA. Gang of Nine, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Architecture probably deserve earlier set-up and mention .