“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

As the son of a NASA engineer, Houston native Chris Garrison has lived in all sorts of places and developed all sorts of ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be retrofitted as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. First reported by Bisnow, the former Compaq Computer site set to be ...

The Compaq Portable III hails from the 386 era — in the days before the laptop form factor was what we know today. It’s got a bit of an odd design, but a compelling one, and the keyboard is pretty ...

The year was 1982 and computers had finally made the jump from machines that took up a full room to something that could fit on a desk. But they were still far from portable, so three entrepreneurs ...

The days of Compaq and Gateway laptops are long gone. But if you have fond memories of buying your first Compaq laptop down at Circuit City, there’s good news. The brand is back — but in a different ...

Hewlett-Packard plans to buy Compaq Computer in a stock swap worth about $25 billion, creating a technology company second in revenue only to IBM. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

In 1981, the first personal computer desktop was launched by IBM. However, the IBM PC had some limitations, such as the lack of a hard drive and too few expansion ports. 40 years ago today, on March 8 ...