nedfield nv 2008 2009 former type public company industry computers fate bankruptcy founded 1979 defunct 2009 headquarters amersfoort netherlands key people mark elbertse ceo franz hetzenauer founder rob romein founder products computers ict revenue 215 million 2006 operating income 8.6 million 2006 net income 6.7 million 2006 website www.tulip.com tulip computers nv 1 was a dutch computer manufacturer that manufactured pc clones . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit it was founded in 1979 as compudata as an importer of american microcomputers . compudata was the distributor for europe for the exidy sorcerer a zilog z80 based home computer . when exidy gave up on the sorcerer in 1979 compudata licensed the design and manufactured them locally for several years . in 1983 it launched its own pc the tulip pc . to achieve 100 % compatibility it simply copied the ibm pc including the bios . ibm sued and after years of litigation tulip and ibm settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in 1989 . it was listed on the amsterdam stock exchange in 1984 . in 1987 compudata changed its name to tulip computers . tulip made headlines among commodore computer enthusiasts when it acquired the commodore brand name in september 1997 and made headlines again in 2003 and 2004 when it tried to grab a share of the games and entertainment markets with commodore branded products . after supposedly making some headway in the market it sold the commodore name to yeahronimo media ventures for 22 million . 2 negotiations began in late 2004 ; the transaction was completed in march 2005 . on 27 september 2007 tulip announced it wanted to buy back the commodore brand for 1 dollar per share . 3 tulip thought it could make more profit by buying it again due to the new activities of commodore on other markets . tulip sponsored crystal palace football club between 1991 and 1993 and eponymous professional cycling teams based in spain 1989 1990 and belgium 1990 1992 . on 26 june 2008 tulip changed its name to nedfield nv . nedfield faced serious problems due to the late 2000s recession and filed for suspension of payment after several of its subsidiaries went bankrupt . 4 5 6 nedfield nv itself was pronounced bankrupt by the district court of utrecht on 3 september 2009 . 7 see also edit tulip system 1 one of the first 16 bit pcs references edit euronext the register dutch news nedfield german subsidiary declared bankrupt . nedfield . 25 february 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 19 . nedfield subsidiary files for suspension of payment . nedfield . 5 june 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 19 . nedfield files for suspension of payment . nedfield . 29 june 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 19 . faillissement nedfield nv en nedfield holding bv in dutch . nedfield . 3 september 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 19 . external links edit nedfield retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tulip computers & oldid 729442309 categories home computer hardware companiesdefunct computer hardware companiescompanies of the netherlandshidden categories cs1 dutch language sources nl navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olnederlandsportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 12 july 2016 at 06 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view