Tiki 100

Tiki 100 was a desktop home/personal computer manufactured by Tiki Data of Oslo, Norway. The computer was launched in the spring of 1984 under the original name Kontiki¹ 100², the computer was first and foremost intended for the emerging educational sector, especially for primary schools.

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Home - Personal computer - Tiki Data - Oslo - Norway - 1984

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The computer was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU, and featured:

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Zilog Z80 - CPU

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• A full-travel keyboard integrated into the computer case
• A colour graphics CRT interface with palette, supporting 3 different graphics modes with 240, 480 or 960 by 256 pixels with 16, 4, or 2 simultaneous colours respectively in 32 kilobytes of dual ported memory.
• A TV interface
• A polyphonic sound generator
• One or two integrated 5¼ inch floppy disk drives
• Two RS-232 serial ports
• One Centronics printer port
• 64 kilobytes (KB) of RAM (main memory)
•   8 kilobytes of EPROM memory

Software included:

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• TIKO, a CP/M-compatible operating system
• A version of the BBC BASIC programming language interpreter
• A COMAL interpreter

Optional equipment:

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• Harddisk controller, replacing one of the floppy disk stations with a harddisk.
• A bespoke network-hub that allowed up to 16 computers to connect in a network, sharing disks and printers. The server was a Tiki-100 with harddisk, running the MP/M operating system, serving up to 3 different printers simultaneously.
• A second CPU card, with an 8088 processor running MS-DOS (but not PC-compatible). In this mode, the Z80 CPU is serving as an I/O processor, handling disk I/O, graphics etc.

The Tiki-100 had 3 different graphics modes, but no text-mode as it used bitmapped graphics only. The modes supported 40, 80 or 160 by 25 characters, respectively, and hardware vertical scroll.

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