<s>
HP	B-Device
Vectra	I-Device
was	O
a	O
line	O
of	O
business-oriented	O
personal	O
computers	O
manufactured	O
by	O
Hewlett-Packard	O
(	O
now	O
HP	O
Inc	O
.	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hewlett-Packard	O
,	O
which	O
originally	O
made	O
its	O
name	O
through	O
selling	O
test	O
equipment	O
,	O
made	O
its	O
move	O
into	O
the	O
computing	O
field	O
in	O
1967	O
with	O
HP	O
1000/2100	O
minicomputers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Further	O
minicomputer	O
and	O
terminal	O
products	O
followed	O
in	O
the	O
coming	O
years	O
,	O
and	O
in	O
1983	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
finally	O
released	O
a	O
microcomputer	O
,	O
the	O
HP	B-Device
150	I-Device
series	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vectras	O
were	O
not	O
entirely	O
IBM-compatible	O
,	O
and	O
in	O
the	O
early	O
years	O
,	O
had	O
a	O
considerable	O
amount	O
of	O
non-standard	O
hardware	O
features	O
,	O
including	O
hard	O
disk	O
types	O
,	O
keyboards	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
mouse	O
interface	O
,	O
and	O
corresponding	O
BIOS	B-Operating_System
extensions	O
named	O
EX-BIOS	O
,	O
thus	O
requiring	O
their	O
own	O
custom	O
OEM	O
version	O
of	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Software	O
that	O
used	O
strictly	O
BIOS	B-Operating_System
calls	O
,	O
would	O
work	O
,	O
but	O
anything	O
that	O
performed	O
low-level	O
hardware	O
access	O
,	O
often	O
had	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vectras	O
notably	O
failed	O
to	O
pass	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
compatibility	O
test	O
of	O
the	O
day	O
,	O
which	O
involved	O
running	O
Lotus	B-Application
123	I-Application
and	O
Microsoft	B-Operating_System
Flight	I-Operating_System
Simulator	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
the	O
time	O
486	B-General_Concept
PCs	O
became	O
commonplace	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
proprietary	O
hardware	O
in	O
HP	O
machines	O
had	O
been	O
dropped	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1995	O
,	O
HP	O
added	O
the	O
Pavilion	B-Device
line	O
as	O
a	O
lower-end	O
range	O
designed	O
for	O
the	O
consumer	O
markets	O
(	O
which	O
the	O
company	O
had	O
ignored	O
up	O
to	O
this	O
point	O
)	O
,	O
including	O
both	O
desktop	O
PCs	O
and	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
early	O
laptops	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2002	O
(	O
following	O
the	O
HP-Compaq	O
merger	O
and	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
VL420	O
and	O
e-pc	O
42	O
models	O
a	O
year	O
prior	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
Vectra	O
family	O
was	O
discontinued	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
replaced	O
by	O
the	O
HP	B-Device
Compaq	I-Device
family	O
the	O
following	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
