The Thor XVI was developed in collaboration with the Danish company DanSoft and was announced at the "Personal Computer World" Show in September 1987. Unlike the previous models, the Thor XVI's hardware was of a completely new design, based around an 8 MHz 68000 processor plus a 2 MHz 68B02 co-processor for audio and I/O processing. 512 KiB of RAM was included as standard (expandable to 2 MiB, later 6.5 MiB). The video hardware provided QL-compatible video modes as well as a new 16-colour mode. Floppy disk, SCSI, Centronics, dual S5/8 serial ports, PC/AT keyboard, mouse, QL expansion bus and QLAN network interfaces were provided. Mass storage options were similar to the previous Thors, plus 40 MB hard disk and diskless network workstation configurations. The Thor XVI was housed in a case similar to that of the Thor PC.