Tiki Data was a manufacturer of microcomputer

Microcomputer

A microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit. They are physically small compared to mainframe and minicomputers...

s, located in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

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. The company was founded in 1983 by Lars Monrad Krohn

Lars Monrad Krohn

Lars Monrad-Krohn is a Norwegian engineer and entrepreneur. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Institute for Radio Technology, in 1959. His master thesis addressed construction of computer core memory and was the first computer-oriented thesis handed in at NTH...

 and Gro Jørgensen , and was targeting the then emerging computer market in the educational sector. Following the launch of the Tiki 100

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, especially for primary schools...

 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

IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981...

, the company switched to selling rebranded PC-compatible computers.

Tiki Data was bought by Merkantildata

Ementor

Atea , previously Ementor, is a Nordic IT infrastructure solutions and services company. It is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.The company sells, installs, and supports products from Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Sun, SAP and others....

in 1996, and ceased to exist from that point on.