Odd glitch in a PDP-8/i

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Fri Jun 25 10:47:50 1999

Ok, here is one for the true wireheads among us.

I finally got some time to start working on the PDP-8/i in my collection,
and started keying in some test programs with the intent of getting the
timing on the TTY interface tweaked in so I could load some serious
software, and found that the old beast seems to have an odd problem.

See if anyone has hit on this one and has a suggestion...

I can't seem to write into location 0 on any memory field?!?

Regardless of what I write into the location, it always reads back as
0000.

I can write into any other location, and all of the primary logic
functions seem to be ok... (I can load/run programs as long as they don't
need location 0)

The 'write all zeros' test program (that org's at location 4) runs as
expected...

Thots, suggestions, comments, eek!?!

-jim
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