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Mine was a Tiki 100, a Norwegian z80 CPU (comparable to the intel 8080) machine. It came with 100K RAM and two 200K diskette stations. It ran a Norwegian version of the CP/M operating system. Monochrome screen.
I bought it in 1983/84 for 17000 NOK, around 2000 USD.
I used it for text processing, and for learning Pascal programming (Turbo Pascal ver 1.0). A couple of games as well, one with a snake which grew whenever it got something to eat and didn't want to meet itself. Another one with robots crashing into each other. And a couple of text adventures. I also programmed a game for my oldest daughter's birthday, based on a Norwegian folktale about a herdsman employed by the king to guard a bunch of not very cooperative hares.
I did not use it for keeping track of what was in our freezer, which back then was a huge selling point for home computers.
I had some problems with it, it would hang form time to time. Got a replacement with the same problems. The third machine worked as it should.
The Tiki machines were intended for use in schools. But at that time 16 bits machines were coming, so building, selling and buying 8bit hardware wasn't exactly future proof. The company went bankerupt a couple of years later.
I still have it. Somewhere. And I think the hardware might be OK. But I doubt it will boot, can't imagine those 35 year old CP/M disks work anymore. Perhaps I should try. Could be fun.
My next computer was an IBM PS/2 model 70, running OS/2 1.0.
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EDIT: This is how it looked:
I bought it in 1983/84 for 17000 NOK, around 2000 USD.
I used it for text processing, and for learning Pascal programming (Turbo Pascal ver 1.0). A couple of games as well, one with a snake which grew whenever it got something to eat and didn't want to meet itself. Another one with robots crashing into each other. And a couple of text adventures. I also programmed a game for my oldest daughter's birthday, based on a Norwegian folktale about a herdsman employed by the king to guard a bunch of not very cooperative hares.
I did not use it for keeping track of what was in our freezer, which back then was a huge selling point for home computers.
I had some problems with it, it would hang form time to time. Got a replacement with the same problems. The third machine worked as it should.
The Tiki machines were intended for use in schools. But at that time 16 bits machines were coming, so building, selling and buying 8bit hardware wasn't exactly future proof. The company went bankerupt a couple of years later.
I still have it. Somewhere. And I think the hardware might be OK. But I doubt it will boot, can't imagine those 35 year old CP/M disks work anymore. Perhaps I should try. Could be fun.
My next computer was an IBM PS/2 model 70, running OS/2 1.0.
pibbur who wonders what the watchers got.
EDIT: This is how it looked:
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