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Rod Canion: making Compaq a Fortune 500 company. (Ideas And Trends) (column)

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| February 01, 1987 | Freiberger, Paul | COPYRIGHT 1987 Lotus Publishing Corp. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 …

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