This is a case study about the Compaq Corporation.

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Business Description and History: With $111 million in revenues in 1982 to over $18 billion in worldwide sales in 1997, Compaq computer started out to be "just like" IBM and ended up revolutionizing the PC industry. Even in the days when computer companies were being started by people in garages, Compaq's beginning was unique. In 1981, Joseph "Rod" Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto, who were all senior manager engineers, left Texas Instruments and invested $1,000 each to form their own …

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