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Wrong. Compaq had much higher DOA and other defects in the mid 90s. They relied on customer institutional memory from the 80s when they really were the best.
by mpa000 7y ago
Wrong. Compaq had much higher DOA and other defects in the mid 90s. They relied on customer institutional memory from the 80s when they really were the best.
- bdcravens 7y agoSounds like Apple's current laptop strategy.
- astrodust 7y agoTrue, Compaq started to go down-market and that did dent their reputation. HP had already been racing to the bottom for years, though.
- yellowapple 7y agoCounterpoint: my Compaq Presario 1210 survived for about 20 years before it finally stopped POSTing. Even the original hard drive still worked (albeit with a range of bad sectors around which I had to partition).