The Peter R. Jennings papers are made up of the corporate and financial records of companies Jennings was involved with, most notably VisiCorp, Gavilan, and Vasona. These records are largely concerned with the marketability of products and company strategies. There are also a number of published materials collected by Jennings, and commercial software unrelated to Jennings' companies but retained by him as part of this collection.

Peter R. Jennings, born in Bedford, England, in 1950, is an inventor, personal computing software pioneer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist perhaps best known for having created Microchess, the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputer. Jennings moved with his family to Ontario, Canada in the early 1960s. He attended McMaster University from 1968 to 1971, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Physics. He received an MA in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 1972 and his MBA in Finance and Marketing from McMaster University in 1974. Jennings married his wife, Jane Barle, in 1973.

33.5 Linear feet 22 record cartons, 5 software boxes, and 3 periodical boxes

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