The Tulip System I is a 16-bit personal computer based on the Intel 8086 and made by Tulip Computers, formerly an import company for the Exidy Sorcerer, called Compudata Systems.

[1][2][3] Tulip System I is based around the Intel 8086 microprocessor with a 16-bit architecture, running at 8 MHz, almost twice the speed of the IBM PC XT which was launched only a few months earlier in July 1983.

The video display generator could also display graphics with a 384 × 288 or 768 × 288 (color) or 768 × 576 (monochrome) pixel resolution using its built-in NEC 7220 video display coprocessor,[4] which had hardware supported drawing functions, with an advanced set of bit-block transfers it could do line generating, arc, circle, ellipse, ellipse arc, filled arc, filled circle, filled ellipse, filled elliptical arc and many other commands.

It has the possibility to use an Intel 8087 math coprocessor,[4] which increased the speed to > 200 kflops, which was near mainframe data at that time.

On a private base, TeX and Turbo Pascal were ported to the Tulip System I.