monitor program

Joe R. rigdonj at cfl.rr.com
Tue Aug 10 20:04:55 CDT 2004


  I had forgotten that the Columbia had a monitor. I haven't touched one of
those since my buddy sold his in 1985.

    Joe


At 08:53 PM 8/10/04 -0400, you wrote:
>"Joe" wrote:
>
>  Unless you use a Zenith PC. They came with a monitor/debugger built into
>ROM. Just use CNTL-ALT-INSERT to bring it up.  OTOH I've had very good
>results just using Debug with MS-DOS.
>
>    Joe
>
>I've always liked the monitor in my Columbia MPC series better than
>Zenith's.  It allows easy access to the disks, sector-by-sector, for (R)eads
>or (W)rites.  The Zenith makes you jump through hoops to accomplish the same
>thing.
>BTW, I never got into DEBUG much, but my all-time favorite program is DDT
>under CP/M.
>
>--T
>
>Jam the computer...trash every lethal machine in the land! -- Timothy Leary
>
>



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