Tröps Computertechnik was founded by Ralf Tröps on 17.19.1986 as individual enterprise. The business objective was the development and distribution of expansions for Commodore computers.

The first expansion was the MTD-880, a floppy adapter. Other Amiga expansions like memory expansions, EPROM burners and a card for control and control of feedback followed.

Tröps Computertechnik changed in late 1988 to Tröps & Hierl Computertechnik - Mr Hierl was doing sales, marketing and finances and relieved Ralf Tröps from administrative work. Later, in Brühl (Germany) a shop was opened.

Keeping the size of the company in mind, a lot of development was done - planned was for example:

• a bridgeboard with Intel 80286 (never released due to problems with manufacturers of PC BIOS)
• various CPU expansions for A500 and A2000

The business object changed in the early 90's more and more towards the PC market. Around 1993, Ralf Tröps and Mr Hierl parted and the company merged one year later, in 1994, in a PC system vendor. That vendor was located in Cologne (Germany) and active in the field of personal computers and peripherals import (e.g. monitors from Taiwan).

Total sales figures of some Tröps expansions are:

• Eram: 2000×
• Multi I/O 200×
• Eram Mega: 1500×
• Mega module: 700-800×