Compaq ProLinea 4/33 - Computers of Significant History

1991 was a brutal year for Compaq. Fierce competition in the PC clone market they had created was eating away at their profits. Facing their first quarterly loss, massive layoffs, and the departure of co-founder Rod Canion, Compaq needed something special to turn the company around. That something special was the ProLinea: Compaq's first PC aimed directly at value-conscious customers. Watch to find out how the ProLinea put Compaq on the path to PC marketshare domination. Blog Post: https://www.userlandia.com/home/2022/8/compaq-prolinea-433 -=- Chapters -=- 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - Inside the Compaq ProLinea 14:08 - The Clone Wars 28:33 - Beige to the Future -=- Links -=- * Sean Burke: The Day Everything Changed at Compaq - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-everything-changed-compaq-sean-burke/ * GEPAV Video courtesy of https://www.youtube.com/@JimsEquipmentShed * John de Lancie Presario Intro courtesy of RetroViator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGxJZIi7jI4 -=- Contact -=- Follow on Mastodon: https://bitbang.social/@kefkafloyd Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kefkafloyd.bsky.social Visit The Website: https://www.userlandia.com Join The Userlandia Discord: https://discord.com/invite/z2jmF93 Theme Song by Space Vixen: https://spacevixen.bandcamp.com Follow them on Bluesky @SpaceVixenMusic: https://bsky.app/profile/spacevixen.bsky.social Image Credits Jack Welch By Hamilton83 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19433918 Presario 425 By phreakindee - Compaq Presario 425, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98783091 Walkman By Binarysequence - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40687158 Digital walkman By Alex Ma - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115054522