Tiki 100
Tiki 100 was a desktop
microcomputer manufactured by
Tiki Data of
Oslo,
Norway. Lauched in the spring of
1984 under the original name
Kontiki¹ 100 ², the computer was first and foremost intended for the emerging educational sector, especially for primary schools.
The computer was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU, and featured:
- A full-travel keyboard integrated into the computer case
- A colour graphics CRT interface with palette, supporting 40, 80 or 160 by 25 characters
- 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
- 96 kilobytes of RAM memory
- 8 kilobytes of EPROM memory
Software included:
Later, an
Intel 8088 based
IBM PC compatible model running
MS-DOS was made, somewhat confusingly called
Tiki 100 Rev.D. In addition to being PC compatible, it also contained a Z80 processor so that it could
seamlessly run the original
Tiki 100 software. The two processors shared the same
bus, and the Z80 programs still ran under the 8088 operating system.
Notes
- Due to a dispute with Thor Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, the name was later changed to Tiki 100.
- Early versions had 4KB EPROM, and the '100' in the machine's name was based on the total KB amount of memory.
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