Author: William H Rogers
Date: 10:46:11 07/05/01
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On July 04, 2001 at 18:22:14, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 04, 2001 at 14:06:30, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >>On July 04, 2001 at 12:40:02, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On July 04, 2001 at 11:23:33, pete stein wrote: >>> >>>>... on history. >>>>Which is the oldest program that is currently still available on the net ? >>>>(and will still run on contempory hardware) >>>>And where to look for it ? >>>> >>>>Pete >>> >>>You can download Mychess (1979) by David Kittinger here: >>>http://www.gambitsoft.com/sharee.htm Don't know about older ones, but that's >>>probably one of them if the date is correct. >>> >>> Albert >> >>In the .doc it's write : >> >>" MYCHESS >> Chess Playing Program >> by Dave Kittinger >> >> >> MSDOS version 1.0 >> May 1984 >> >>" >> >>5 year latter than 1979 ... > >The PC didn't exist in any decent sense until approximately then. It's probably >a port of an older program. > >bruce I think you are correct Bruce. I know that it was written for the Radio Shack TRS-80 and I think that it came out in 1979. I found the PC version much later. Bill
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