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ROD CANION: MAKING COMPAQ A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY
At the Fall Comdex '86 show, crowds flocked to the booth of Compaq Computer Corp. to see its trend-setting '386-based PC. It was an immediate sensation, and some show attendees actually went so far as to rib the IBM sales team, asking if their computers were Compaq-compatible.
Compaq has come a long way in four years. The man most responsible for its dramatic rise is a modest, Texas-born computer engineer named Rod Canion, who at times seems bewildered by his tremendous success. Under Canion, Compaq has grown from an IBM-clone maker to a company willing, and perhaps able, to become the PC industry's technology …