Not to be confused with Compal Electronics. Compaq (a portmanteau of Compatibility And Quality; occasionally referred to as CQ prior to its final logo) was a company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services.
Windows Defender is a freeware program designed to protect against spyware and other unwanted software. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users who have genuine copies of Microsoft Windows can freely download the program from Microsoft's web site, and Windows Defender ships as part of Windows Vista and 7.
A direct-access storage device ( DASD ) pronounced ) is a secondary storage device in which each physical record has a discrete location and a unique address. IBM developed DASDs for use with mainframe computers and some minicomputers . Disk drives , magnetic drums , data cells and optical disc drives are all classified as DASDs.