Editing Tiki Data

{{Infobox company
| industry = [[Electronics]]
| hq_location_city = [[Oslo]]
| hq_location_country = Norway
| founded = {{start date and age|1983}}
| founders = {{ubl|[[Lars Monrad Krohn]]|Gro Jørgensen}}
| products = [[Tiki 100]]
| defunct = {{end date|1996}}
| fate = Acquired by Merkantildata
}}

'''Tiki Data''' was a manufacturer of [[microcomputer]]s, located in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]. The company was founded in 1983 by [[Lars Monrad Krohn]] and Gro Jørgensen,<ref name="financialtimes19831006_kontiki">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/FinancialTimes1983UKEnglish/Oct%2006%201983%2C%20Financial%20Times%2C%20%2329138%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n28/mode/1up | title=How Kontiki will set sail | work=Financial Times | last1=Snoddy | first1=Raymond | date=6 October 1983 | access-date=8 September 2024 | pages=29 }}</ref><ref name="storhaugolsen2006">{{ cite web | url=http://home.student.bi.no/~s0613989/cyberbook.doc | title=Interview with Gro Jørgensen, founder of Cyberbook AS | first1=Harald | last1=Storhaug Olsen | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311042404/http://home.student.bi.no/~s0613989/cyberbook.doc | date=25 November 2006 | archive-date=11 March 2012 }}</ref> and was targeting the then emerging computer market in the educational sector. Following the launch of the [[Tiki 100]] computer,<ref>[http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=734&st=1 Tiki Data: Tiki-100], old-computers.com</ref> 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 company switched to selling rebranded PC-compatible computers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}}

Tiki Data was bought by Merkantildata in 1996, and ceased to exist from that point on.<ref name="digino19961204">{{Cite web | last1=Kanden | first1=Jens | date=4 December 1996 | title=MD kjøper Tiki | url=https://www.digi.no/artikler/md-kjoper-tiki/344901 | access-date=8 September 2024 | website=Digi.no }}</ref>

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