TRS-80


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 * [[image:4-1.microchess_screenshot.L062302022.JENNINGS.lg.jpg width="294" height="215" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a0807480"]] ||~  || **TRS-80** was [|Tandy Corporation's] first [|microcomputer] model, with [|Zilog's] Z80 8-bit CPU. TRS-80 was sold through Tandy's [|Radio Shack] stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

MicroChess, by Peter Jennings, was the first commercially-available microcomputer-based chess program running on a TRS-80, soon followed by Sargon, written by Dan and Kathe Spracklen. || toc =Display=
 * Microchess on TRS-80 ||~  ||^   ||

Layout of characters and pixels

 * [[image:300px-TRS-80-graphics.png link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80"]] ||
 * Layout of characters and pixels on the TRS-80 display ||

Chess Program Screens
=Publications=
 * [[image:4-1.microchess_1-5_trs80_screenshot.L062302023.JENNINGS.lg.jpg width="505" height="381" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a080c29f"]] ||
 * MicroChess, 1976 ||
 * [[image:VCS_vs_SARGON.gif width="505" height="381" link="http://www.andreadrian.de/schach/"]] ||
 * Sargon, 1978 ||
 * Sargon, 1978 ||
 * Norman D. Whaland (**1981**). //TRS-80 - Konane//. [|SoftSide Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 03 / Issue 24], December, 1981

=External Links=
 * [|TRS-80 from Wikipedia]
 * [|TRS-80: Information from Answers.com]
 * [|Ira Goldklang’s TRS-80 Revived Site]
 * [|TRS-80 Emulator for .Net]
 * Tim Mann's [|TRS-80 Pages]

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