Computer Brands That No Longer Exist

Remember Compaq? Gateway? Packard Bell? In the 1990s, dozens of computer brands fought for shelf space at Best Buy, Sears, and Walmart. Today, almost all of them are gone.From Compaq — the startup that overtook IBM and then got swallowed by HP in a $25 billion deal — to Gateway, the cow-box computer empire built on a cattle ranch in Iowa — to Commodore, the company that made the best-selling computer of all time and still went bankrupt.This is the story of 7 computer brands that dominated the market and then disappeared completely.