Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation was a personal-computer manufacturer founded on February 16, 1982 in Houston, Texas by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three former Texas Instruments executives. It legally reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS and shipped the Compaq Portable in March 1983, then built out the Deskpro desktop line, the LTE notebook line, the Presario consumer line, and the SystemPro and ProLiant server lines, becoming the world's largest PC maker by 1994. Losing ground to Dell's direct-sales model and hit by the dot-com collapse, Compaq agreed to merge with Hewlett-Packard on September 4, 2001 in a $24.2 billion deal that closed on May 3, 2002. HP retired the Compaq brand entirely in North America and Europe in 2013 and has since licensed it regionally to third parties (Positivo Tecnologia in Brazil, Grupo Newsan in Argentina, Triden Corp in Mexico, Ossify Industries in India). Compaq predates the public web-API era and never published a developer program, public API, or SDK of its own; the compaq.com domain is still registered to HP Inc. but serves no website. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Compaq is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Compaq scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Compaq is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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