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</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">CompuAdd Corporation</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Private</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category">Personal computers and peripherals</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1982 (1982) in <a href="Austin%2C_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Bill Hayden</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">1994 (1994)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired by Dimeling, Schrieber & Park</td></tr></tbody></table>

CompuAdd Corporation was a manufacturer of <a href="Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">personal computers</a> in <a href="Austin%2C_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a>. It assembled its product from components manufactured by others. CompuAdd created generic PC clone computers, but unlike most <a href="Clone_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clone (computer science)">clone</a> makers, it had a large engineering staff. CompuAdd also created a <a href="Multimedia_PC" title="Multimedia PC">Multimedia PC</a> (MPC), the FunStation, and a <a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun workstation</a> clone, the SS-1.

CompuAdd was the largest clone PC manufacturer in Austin until 1993 and outsold PC's Limited (now <a href="Dell" title="Dell">Dell Computer Corporation</a>). CompuAdd sold PCs to corporate, educational and government entities.<a href="#cite_note-CompuAdd.NYT92-1">[1]</a> CompuAdd Computers 386 was on the US Army's Mobile Missile System in <a href="Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> 1 (1991) and it was rated and tested by the Army for that use.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3></div>

Bill Hayden was born in <a href="San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, <a href="Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. He went to school at the <a href="University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a> and graduated with a degree in <a href="Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> in 1971.<a href="#cite_note-CompuAdd.NYT92-1">[1]</a> He was employed by <a href="Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a> as a design engineer in a classified government reconnaissance project.<a href="#cite_note-CompuAdd.NYT92-1">[1]</a> In 1974, he switched to TI's Calculator Division and became a project engineer. It was there that Hayden claims he developed the entrepreneurial spirit that he later applied when he started CompuAdd.

After several years in this position, which required a great deal of overtime, he decided that he needed more time to contemplate his future. He noticed that quality assurance was less demanding work with shorter hours and switched to that. As his 10-year anniversary with TI approached in 1981, Hayden turned in his resignation.<a href="#cite_note-TexasEEt-2">[2]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Products_and_retail_stores">Products and retail stores</h3></div>

CompuAdd was founded by Bill Hayden in the following year, 1982. CompuAdd using $100,000 earned by selling real estate part-time.<a href="#cite_note-CompuAdd.NYT92-1">[1]</a> Hayden sold computer peripherals and add-on devices such as disk drives. The name came from this computer add-on business plan.<a href="#cite_note-computerworld19920224_texas-3">[3]</a>

The company's marketing slogan was: Customer Driven, by Design,<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> and it prided itself on its "no frills" corporate culture.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

CompuAdd operated a chain of retail computer stores in the United States. They also had a strong server line. At the height of CompuAdd's reign, it had over 100 sales people. In 1992, Hayden split the company into two parts: "one to handle 125 retail outlets and international markets" and the other for "large business and government accounts."<a href="#cite_note-CompuAdd.NYT92-1">[1]</a>

Alongside its PC-compatible systems, the company joined several other PC clone manufacturers in introducing workstation products based on the <a href="SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a> architecture, colloquially known as SPARC clones and competing with <a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>' own product range.<a href="#cite_note-byte199101_sparc-6">[6]</a> CompuAdd's SS-1 workstation was described as "basic" and with the "least added value" amongst its clone peers, but competitively priced at $9,695.<a href="#cite_note-byte199107_sparc-7">[7]</a>

In 1992, having initially won a substantial contract to supply the <a href="United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> with desktop computers, CompuAdd was forced to suspend a corresponding investment in manufacturing due to challenges made to the outcome of this procurement exercise,<a href="#cite_note-computerworld19920224_texas-3">[3]</a> these eventually leading to the award of the contract to <a href="Zenith_Data_Systems" title="Zenith Data Systems">Zenith Data Systems</a>.<a href="#cite_note-computerworld19920914_zenith-8">[8]</a> Despite this setback, the company secured its largest contract to date, supplying <a href="Sears%2C_Roebuck_and_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Sears, Roebuck and Co.">Sears, Roebuck and Co.</a> with point-of-sale systems.<a href="#cite_note-computerworld19920224_texas-3">[3]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bankruptcy_and_acquisition">Bankruptcy and acquisition</h3></div>

In 1993, CompuAdd closed all of its 110 retail stores,<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> to concentrate on direct sales, and sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> – but also launched a new line of Centura personal computers. When they emerged from bankruptcy in November 1993, 75 percent ownership of the company was transferred to unsecured creditors, with Hayden retaining 20 percent and the remainder held for employees.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

Hayden shortly afterwards resigned as CEO, a position taken over by Richard Krause, the company's president and chief operating officer.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Following the consolidation trend within the clone industry, as manufacturers sought to preserve volumes and access to lucrative corporate markets, CompuAdd sought to merge with fellow manufacturer Zeos International.<a href="#cite_note-computerworld19940207_clones-13">[13]</a> Framed as an acquisition by Zeos, negotiations broke down between the companies, and Zeos was ultimately acquired by Micron Technology.<a href="#cite_note-computerworld19941024_zeos-14">[14]</a> CompuAdd was subsequently bought by Dimeling, Schrieber & Park, a private Philadelphia investment company in September 1994.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

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