Tiki Data was a manufacturer of
microcomputer
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s, located in
Oslo
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,
Norway
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. The company was founded in 1983 by
Lars Monrad Krohn
Lars Monrad-Krohn (born July 14, 1933) is a Norwegian engineer and entrepreneur.
He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Institute for Radio Technology, (NTH, Institutt for Radioteknikk) in 1959. His master thesis addressed const ...
and Gro Jørgensen, and was targeting the then emerging computer market in the educational sector. Following the launch of the
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 Kontiki-100, and was first and foremost intended for the emerging educational sector ...
computer, which was designed by Tiki Data from the bottom up, the company started publishing software for the educational sector. Following the impact of the
IBM PC
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a team ...
, the company switched to selling rebranded PC-compatible computers.
Tiki Data was bought by Merkantildata in 1996, and ceased to exist from that point on.
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