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
- TIKO, a CP/M-compatible operating system
- A version of the BBC BASIC programming language interpreter
- A COMAL interpreter
- 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.
Software included:
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Optional equipment:
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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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