Radio shack chess computer4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Money made from Microchess and other software projects allowed Jennings, together with Dan Fylstra, to launch VisiCalc and then create the VisiCorp company. Jennings founded Personal Software to publish Microchess to the growing microcomputer market. It was the first microcomputer software package to sell 10,000 copies, almost exclusively on cassette tape. Selling it at a price of $10 US dollars, Jennings refused to sell the rights of the program to Chuck Peddle (president of MOS Technology) for $1000. ![]() Microchess, as small as it was in terms of program size, could still play passable chess on the KIM-1 with its 6502 microprocessor, 1 kilobyte of memory, simple hex keyboard, and seven-segment display. Jennings, was originally a microcomputer chess program for the MOS Technology KIM-1 microcomputer, first released on December 18, 1976. ![]()
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