Puzzle #23 · 18 August 2026
Brandoozle #23 answer
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Compaq logo (c) HP Inc. Used for identification purposes only.
How players did
- Players
- 33
- Solved
- 100%
- Average turns
- 2.6
- Difficulty
- fair
33 of 33
among solvers
4 ratings
Half of the players who solved it did so by stage 2 of 6 — the measure of how little of the logo people needed.
The six facts
Three Texas Instruments engineers sketched this brand on a diner placemat in 1982.
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Its first machine was a 28-pound portable clone of an IBM PC.
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It reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS legally, opening the entire clone market.
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It was briefly the largest PC maker in the world in the mid-1990s.
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It bought Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998.
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A 2002 merger folded it into a Palo Alto rival, and the name faded by 2013.
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