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 microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. The company was founded in 1983 by Lars Monrad Krohn and Gro Jørgensen,{{ 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 }}{{ 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 }} and was targeting the then emerging computer market in the educational sector. Following the launch of the Tiki 100 computer,[http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=734&st=1 Tiki Data: Tiki-100], old-computers.com 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.{{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 }}