website/content/museum/tiki-data-tiki-100.md

---
title: TIKI-DATA Tiki-100
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Norway
years:
- '1984'
cpus:
- Z80
params:
  name: Tiki-100
  image: /media/museum/photos/tiki_100_system_1.jpg
  company: /companies/tiki-data
  company_name: TIKI-DATA
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: Tiki-100
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Tiki-Data
  - label: TYPE
    value: Professional Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Norway
  - label: YEAR
    value: April 1984
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: None
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: Full -stroke QWERTY 92 keys with numeric keypad, arrows and function keys
  - label: CPU
    value: Z80 (later 8088)
  - label: SPEED
    value: 4 Mhz (Z80), 6 Mhz. (8088)
  - label: RAM
    value: 64 KB
  - label: VRAM
    value: 16 KB
  - label: ROM
    value: 8 KB
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: None
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 256 x 256, 512 x 256, 1024 x 256
  - label: COLORS
    value: 16, 4 or 2 among 256, depending of the video mode
  - label: SOUND
    value: 3-channel/8-octave buildt-in AY-3-8912. Built-in speaker & volume knob
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: 2 x Serial ports, 1 x Parallel, Audio out, Analog and TTL video RGB, composite video, RF modulator
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: 1 or 2 5'' FDD - 80, 200, 400 or 800 KB - Optional hard disk
  - label: OS
    value: TIKO (Z80) and TIKOS (8088) CP/M like. MS-DOS 2.11
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Built-in linear power supply unit
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: 3 internal expansion slots
  - label: PRICE
    value: 12000 NOK (1984, Norway)
  tabs:
  - photos
  - emulators
  - links
  photos:
  - title: SYSTEME
    subtitle: ''
    text: |-
      With monochrome monitor

      Courtesy of **Jorn E.Haugan**
    image: /media/museum/photos/tiki_100_system_2.jpg
  - title: SYSTEM DIAGRAM
    subtitle: ''
    text: Courtesy of **Jorn E.Haugan**
    image: /media/museum/photos/tiki_100_diagram_1.jpg
  emulators:
  - title: TIKI-100_emul V1.1
    url: http://djupdal.org/tiki/emulator/
    platform: Multiplatform
    text: TIKI-100 emulator (Amiga & Windows)
  links:
  - title: Asbjørn Djupdal's TIKI-100 norwegian page
    url: http://djupdal.org/tiki/
    text: Norwegian page, with emulator
  comments:
  - author: Agre (Norway)
    date: Wednesday 4th November 2020
    text: Apart from some early foray into Basic programming on my first computer, the Commodore 64, in 1983. I also learned to program in Logo on these Brattvåg ungdomsskule computers in 1985. I enjoyed playing Pyton on it too. Good times!
  - author: Ariel Digit
    date: Sunday 29th April 2018
    text: I never seen one of these with the balls bumming but sounds great.$
  - author: TheBeetles
    date: Friday 20th January 2017
    text: |-
      Isn''t it good?\
      Norwegian Wood.
  - author: John Inge Erlandsen (Norway)
    date: Sunday 1st November 2015
    text: My first experience with a programming language was when I was 7 years old and my grandfather had a TIKI at home because he was a supervisor at my school. I guess it must have been around 1992. He taught me tiki-kalk and some basic. I also practiced touch typing, played snake and some robot game. Good times.
  - author: Petter (Norway)
    date: Wednesday 28th May 2014
    text: I remember the first time I saw the Tiki-100 was at a computer fair in Sandefjord and people were amazed of the speed of the graphic which was demostrated by the ability of having several balls bumbing to the floor at the same time withour any lag :-)
  - author: Peter Udbjørg (Oslo, Norway)
    date: Sunday 19th January 2014
    text: |-
      I used to work for the magazine "Tiki-bladet" ("The Tiki Mafazine"), published by "Mikroben" for Tiki Data. I got the job as a journalist and layout/paste-up-man after reading an ad in the magazine. It became run by me and "the boss", the guy owning "Mikroben", and me. The Boss had a deal with Tiki Data to publish a magazine for them, they paid his company, which then also paid me $ the boss.\
      I wrote articles in WordStar on a Tiki-100, printing them out in column with with a typewheel typewriter equipped with a RS 232-port, cutting the columns out and pasting them up on the page masters. Pictures were slides, sent in with the pages and with an indication of where to go and what $ scale. Of course, contributions from readers were printed. Eventually, Tiki-100 became THE educational computer, and Tiki Data even got a Dutch subsidiary. I interviewed teachers and pupils at two schools the year-and-a-half I worked for the magazine. And eventually, we became "embedded" in Tiki Data, having our own office in their premises (a rented office space in an office building near Sinsen). School teachers were also "embedded" for periods of time.\
      I had a Tiki-100 myself, too, programming it in Pascal and using Wordstar and SuperCalc.\
      Some programmer made a real cool game: Invaders! To make it fast enough, he machine coded the whole bit. But it worked flawlessly.\
      When the cheap Wintel clones flooded the PC-market by the end of the 1980’s, Tiki Data found themself in deeper water. A Tiki with "PC-card" was made, somehow able to dual boot in either some Windows flavour or Tikos. But it flopped, and the Tiki-100 was history.\
      A while ago, an emulator running under Win98 could be found on the Net. Another emulator for Unix exists, but it appears it demands a special type of processor.
  - author: Belkisa Kolenovic (Norway)
    date: Saturday 28th January 2012
    text: These were still in use in my junior high school in the south of Norway in 1995. We used them to practice touch typing. Will never forget that awesome keyboard.
  - author: Arno Teigseth (Norway)
    date: Saturday 17th December 2011
    text: I attended the school on Mosby, southern Norway, from 1985 onward. The kon-tiki was hot. We students of course found the only game (I know of), the "snake". It was a real breakthrough when I finally, after much effort, managed to "round" the game, filling the entire screen with snake. The teacher and whole class watched. Deception was great when after filling that last piece of screen, "snake" simply started over... If i''m not mistaken, there was a potmeter somewhere that I used to crank down the CPU speed with.
  - author: Dagfinn Topland (Norge)
    date: Wednesday 15th September 2010
    text: Amazing, A couple of years ago I picked up three of those from a garbage dump and at least one of them had the name "KonTiki" seems like I saved some history that day..
  oc_id: 734
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329013423/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=734
    date: '2023-03-29'
---

The Tiki-100 was a Norwegian educational, professional, homecomputer system that was quite popular in schools.

Acutally they first used the name Kontiki-data, and named the first few models **Kontiki-100**, but had to change the name to Tiki after the Thor Heyerdahl Society, wich owned the rights to the Kontiki name, threatened with a lawsuit.

Five models were available, featuring one or two 80 KB, 200 KB or 800 KB 5'' floppy disc drives. An optional 20MB Winchester harddrive was also available.

The Tiki-100 could read various disk formats, like Scandis, [IBM-PC](/museum/ibm-pc-model-5150/), [Osborne](/museum/osborne-corp-osborne-1/), and [ABC-800](/museum/luxor-abc-800-series/). The 80 KB format was the same as used in some [Xerox-systems](/museum/xerox-820/).

The operating-system was called **TIKO**, and was compatible with CP/M 2.2. It was first called **KP/M**, but was renamed at the same time as the computer changed the name from Kontiki-100 to Tiki-100.

One could also install an optional Intel-8088 processor-board, adding an extra 256 KB ram to the main 64 KB. A 16-bit operating system called **TIKOS** was used together with the i8088 board, and managed both the i8088 and Z80 at the same time. TIKOS was developed from CP/M-86, and was compatible with it. MS-DOS 2.11 was also available.

The Tiki-100 had 3 (maybe more?) graphics modes, but no text-mode as it used bitmapped graphics only.\
A separate network hub was available that allowed up to 8 (not sure) computers to be connected in a star topology. One of the standard Tiki's serial ports was used for the network, in high speed mode. The server was a Tiki-100 that ran MP/M.

Several programs were developed for the Tiki-100. Most common were: **BRUM** (a simple wordprocessor), **Tiki-Kalk** (Spreadsheet), **Tiki-BAS** (Database),**WordStar** and **SuperCalc** and a little snake-type game called **Pyton**.

A simple terminal program was also imbedded in the OS, and made it possible to connect to a BBS through a 300 or 1200 bps modem. A serial terminal could be used to acces the Tiki-100 via one of the serial ports.

Program languages like: C, Fortran, Cobol, BASIC, Pascal was also available.

Thanks to **Jon Andre Finnerud** and **Jorn E.Haugan** for information and pictures.