Today, Compaq is little more than a memory, an extra brand-name slapped on the odd machine sold by aging computer giant HP. But there was a time when Compaq was big---so big it could hire John Cleese ...

Let’s see, to begin with, the fish weighed 22 pounds. So did the Compaq Portable II computer (in retrospect, perhaps “luggable” is more accurate). Here, in a British commercial from 1986 or so, former ...

John Cleese explains how a Compaq portable computer is better than a dead fish in this mid-1980s commercial. It seems only a short time ago when the famous series of "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials ...