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

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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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Tiki Data: Tiki Data was a manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. The company was founded in 1983 by Lars Monrad Krohn, and was targeting the then emerging computer market in the educational sector. Following the launch of the Tiki 100 computer, which was designed by Tiki Data from the bottom...

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