OT: deliberate mis-spelling

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Wed Jul 1 20:36:27 CDT 2009


Adrian Graham wrote:
> COMPAQ originally stood for 'COMPAtability with Quality' because of their
> IBM-copyright busting compatible BIOS. That's the official line anyhoo :)

I don't remember that at all.  As the original Compaq was a luggable, I 
was almost certain it stood for "compact".


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