[net.micro.pc] Compaq Screen Crash

GLASS@SU-SIERRA.ARPA (06/15/84)

From:  L. Brett Glass <GLASS@SU-SIERRA.ARPA>

I was programming with a friend a couple of nights ago, and ran into a
bug in the IBM assembler.  It didn't assemble the offset for a jump
properly and sent the uP off into never-never land. What's worse, it
must have hit just the wrong address somewhere, because the screen
started to display strange patterns and then went blank -- it has not
come alive again since.

I understand some screen blanking programs have been known to do the
same thing.  Assuming it's the same bug, what happened and what does
it take to bring the monitor back to life?

--Brett Glass