Baq to the Compaq

Flash forward to the year 2015… Imagine your local Best Buy at 5:30 am on a Saturday morning; late August 2015. Picture a winding line of 300 good Americans–moms, dads, children, teenagers, and husky Ebay speculators. The barbarians at the gate are loaded with lawn chairs, vitamin C, playing cards, fleece blankets, and other middle-class mechanisms of subsistence. All are biding their time in hopes of being one of the first few to get their knuckles around the newest model of the Compaq Presario VXXX series. Compaq is so hot right now–they sponsored the last space shuttle mission.Lest the consumer of the future remember the ’80s and ’90s when Compaq made ash-grey machines that were more or less the same shape as the box they came in. I remember playing Doom on