Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 6 July 1981 The meeting was called to order at 19:38 by Ronald D. Mabbitt. In attendance were RDM, GMP. Late were: Barmar, KYM, ACW, WMY, RK, CAH, RSL, J9, c/, Alan, DCP, JIS, Naha The minutes of the meeting of 29 June 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. Barmar came in during this, and took over the minutes. ACW, KYM came in during this. Treasurer's Report: The treasurer is in Maryland. The numbers are very small, because the new fiscal year started this week. WMY, RK came in at this point, and WMY took over the meeting. $735.67 spent so far this year, not including the 370. There was an error in Multics billing when the fiscal year began, and we were being overcharged. It will be fixed eventually. Chairman's Report: CAH, RSL, J9, c/, Alan, DCP, JIS, Naha came in at this point. The chairman had a 4th of July party this weekend. The fireworks were cool. WMY saw Ken Dumas (UAVP) from a distance a few days ago. ACW proposed that we not accept HGA's resignation. It was moved and passed unanimously. WMY censured the board for how pig-headed we acted in respect to HGA and the boar's head. Office Report: There are too many bicycles in the office at the current time. All of last year's dailies have been taken off the wall. KYM couldn't find the font catalogue. The people who looked did not look hard enough. The freezer is being defrosted. People are finding many uses for last year's Form B.s. Computer Services: RK wants to know why we rented two more tape slots. JIS rented them for the backup he did. RK will undo this. WMY reset everybody's SIPBADMIN cutoffs to $50 (except for RK, who has already spent more than this). WMY had a ball playing with JJ's assoc segment. He accidentally emptied it, but fixed it up. *** User Interrupt *** BSEE (Kirk Holmes) - $50 for membership lists, organizational history, mailing lists. Expects that this money would last between a term and a year. Given. In the future, they should try to find alternate sources; we are funding them mostly for development. Cutoff 5/31/82 *** End User Interrupt *** CAH fixed the daily so that Coop is not added into our spending totals. Multics is responding well during the day, even with 80 people. >udd>Student got deleted last week when Bobby Burke deleted the Student2 project, since "Student2" is an add_name on Student. It was retrieved. *** User Interrupt *** Koch, Jonathan (TriVi userid) - Writing software for displaying CAT-scan data on a TriVi display. So far this summer he has been funded by the Dean of Engineering, but that only lasted until 1 July. He is writing in Lisp. He promises to work during the proper shift. He thinks $150 should last this month, and then he will try to talk his department into finishing. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** The IMP that many of the ARPAnet hosts around here are on went down and came up today. Telecommunication Report: Someone should bug RLL about the VT100 graphics demo. The SpinWriter needs PM. Someone should call it in. The terminal concentrator Chaos software seems to be working. DCP may be able to log in from it soon. Chaos subnet 34 is alive, and EE's Chaos bridge is working. RDM talked to the people from Wellesley some more about getting phone lines up for data connections to their computer. It will probably get funded by the MIT-Wellesley program. Publications Report: We seem to be low on NETs. The new rates should be put in the NUMs and NETs. RDM will. R/O Report: We are in a state of hold. WMY never signed the Freshperson letter. Too bad. We have to get started working on the freshman tour. DCP will look into it. Other: CAH, representing APO, says that he may come to us some time in the future to ask us for a couple of terminals for a week or so, to do the bookkeeping for the APO book sale. He may also ask us for about $200 to run it, too. The office manual should be brought up-to-date in reference to registering new users. In fact, it needs to be brought up-to-date in reference to the many "comment-me" copies that we have seen in the recent past. Barmar should get his act together and call Fred Richardson. Applications: Members should remember to call users who we decided not to turn on until we contacted them. NSBE (Norman Fortenbury) - $250 to continue working on their networking project, for office automation "feasibility study," and for text editing the NSBE conference proceedings. He can't come in until September. WMY suggests that we give the $100 for the networking project and text editing the proceedings, but not general office automation. The proceedings text editing was what their last application was for. Deferred until they can come to a meeting. ESP (Jeannine Mosely) - Registration materials and text editing. Mainly the same things as previous projects. Wants $50 until 12/31/81. Given. Total appropriations: $1880 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1430 370: $200 To Meeting: $250, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $40 A large part of our spending so far has been on SIPBADMIN. This shouldn't be. DCP thinks we might be able to get Prof. Corbato' to give us space and money for our concentrator. Barmar has been working on a Coop Form B. Other Other: Symbolics has finally gotten their funding. They have been capitalized to a total of $1.5M. That means they can keep on going! J9 has a really cute kitten she needs to get rid of. If you want it, it's yours. "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" seems to have moved to Fridays. c/ and Moon went to the cape last week. Do we want to continue our "Discover" subscription, and get one to "The Journal of Irreproduceable Results"? We will talk about it next week when more people are here. Chaos subnet 1 went down yesterday, causing obscure results in Plasma and Fusion. The problem was caused by a bad chip on EE's interface board. The meeting was adjourned at 22:11. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.