Title: Open
Subtitle: how Compaq ended IBM's PC domination and helped invent modern computing
Description: An account of the founding of Compaq reveals the absence of software standardization that challenged the fledgling company and the series of risky decisions that directly influenced the establishment of an open PC standard marketplace.
Subjects: Microcomputers, Compaq Portable Computer, IBM microcomputers, Compaq Computer Corporation, Computer industry, History, COMPAQ Portable Computer, Ibm microcomputers, Compaq portable computer
Places: United States, Houston (Tex.)
People: Joseph R. (Rod) Canion, Rod Canion