Like a bad ’90s revival, Compaq is back and making smart TVs

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As noted by Gadgets 360, Ossify Industries, an Indian electronics maker, will soon be reviving the Compaq brand name on its smart TVs. The company reached the height of its popularity and financial success in 1998, but started to struggle against cheaper competitors like Dell. HP lives on as one of the few laptop makers to survive the era, with Compaq as a mere footnote in PC history. The idea of a company playing on any goodwill consumers might still have for the brand has us nostalgic for the simpler days of electronics. Let’s hope not, but it’s always a fun exercise to see just how far laptops have come in the past fifteen years and which brands managed to win out in the long run.

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