Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 19 October 1981 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by David C. Plummer In attendance were DCP, WER, Naha, GMP, CAH, TZS, RLL, HDT, JR, Lai. Late were: LRH, Jay, barmar, WMY, MG, RK, DPC, JIS, KYM, CWH, J9, c/. The minutes of the meeting of 10 October 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. Treasurer's Report: All September phone calls were claimed! As a reward, members will be billed tomorrow. LA120 paper was acquired from Lab Supplies. Month-to-date spending: $4,414.74. 370 spending is negligible. Year-to-date is still under $20K. This is about $8K less than last year. barmar, WMY, MG came in during this. $1650 remains inthe checking account. We will send vouchers to FinBoard for publications. Don't forget NOT to pay tax to Beane. Make sure the amount you pay is correct, too. RK came in during this. Chairman's Report: WMY talked with Dorothy Corbett (the new RK Scott), RK Scott, and Barbara Hughes. Barmar was there too. They talked about consulting. They seemed reasonable. Qualified SIPB members will be allowed to be online consultants. IPS 370 programmers serve as general consultants, while Multics ones only do OLC. Jay has put the minutes of the Multics_OLC (molc) continuum meeting on the board. We told them things they could do to win. The SIPB needs to pick sides for a fight over whether Multics or the 370 is better for different kinds of users. The Multics development project is pretty dead now. It may be mentioned in "Computerworld". DPC came in during this. JPT was declared inactive. there are now 16 active full members of the Board. JIS came in during this. Elections: Howard Trachtman and Richard Lai had been nominated for membership. The magic number is 8. RK asked the prospective members what they had done for the Board. HDT has done filing, office hours, taken applications and bugged barmar. Lai has taken applications and run the SpinWriter. WMY asked them why they wanted to be members. Lai has done consulting and likes it, and wants to learn about Multics. HDT wants to help people and learn the systems. HDT: 5 yes, 1 no, and 3 abstain. Lai: 8 yes, 1 abstain. Lai was elected. HDT was renominated for membership. Jon Rochlis was also nominated. Their elections will be next week, 26 October 1981. KYM came in during this. *** User Interrupt *** International Students Association (David T. Chan) - $100 for text processing a newsletter. They cannot get this money from FinBoard. They have little money of their own. They want to try to do one next month. They expect the $100 to last they whole year. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** Office Report: People should be more careful with backup maps; don't lose them, because they are very hard to regenerate. People should sign up for office hours. There is a large gap on Thursday. CWH came in during this. The office was reported to be unlocked and unattended at around midnight this morning. We have a rink schedule and new speakers for the stereo (actually, HGA's old ones). The VS/1 System Messages manual was improperly filed (found under a pile of junk on the desk) and WMY could not find it. The CMS HELP command claims to be able to interpret 370 error codes. CWH left at this point. We have a stack of center publications to lend out. Books should be put in the bookcase. J9 came in at this point. Computer Services: english.dict is missing many simple plurals. Maybe we want to add them by some automatic method. Barmar talked to Dorothy Corbett about students paying for IPS courses. We want to pay for students, but we don't want the students to take it for granted, filling up slots and then not coming. We're thinking of an attendee rebate - the students pay the $10, and we give it back after they attend the first lecture. Barmar suggests that we tell the IPS to send needy students to us, but that seems pretty arbitrary. Barmar will see if he can implement the rebate plan, since Dorothy Corbett sort of assented. GMP produced portrait output on the 9700 from Multics. Telecommunication Report: The 11 had a hardware failure. It's had this problem before; it has to do with the memory board. Living group payments and terminal requests should be left in the mail bin for WER. The Next House dataset hasn't arrived yet, and Next House hasn't sent us the liability agreement for fall '81 (WER told them to do so ASAP). Senior House did get its H19. WER will order them a Bell 212 dataset. WER will also make a "dataset ordering" form letter and have CAH OK it. We'll probably invest $20-$30 to build a SpinWriter cover. Delta Upsilon is thinking of buying a terminal, so we should be prepared to advise them. Many people saw the Infoscribe 500 this weekend. They had no graphics demos. A programming manual will be sent here, and they may come up with one we can try out. It's a pretty good printer, and is a bargain at the price (~$2,000). WMY asked RKScott if the center wanted some Telerays for office use, since ours don't hold up too well under public terminal use. Telerays cost $1100 new, so we have decided to sell them for about $600, plus or minus haggling. Publications Report: Naha actually got the NUMS on time, but he has to go back tomorrow and tell them they can't add when figuring bills. WER's Emacs intro (which she wrote for a class) will be available soon for public scrutiny. Annual-Report Report: WMY, and RK stayed up all night working on the report. The Finanacial Report and lots of rewriting need to be done, so everyone should help and comment. Statistics also need more work. RK has been doing alot of work on them and we're up to our "R"'s in statistics. New and prospective members are encouraged to help out. This Thursday at 19:30 an ambitious group will work on them. IAP Report: The Advanced Lisp Course will meet from 15:30 to 17:00 on afternoons when the regular Lisp Course isn't being taught. This means there will be six action-packed sessions. WMY hasn't yet heard the tumultuous interest he was expecting for the "Getting the Most Out of Multics" course. Other: There is a "Not Multics" error message on Magic-6, which is a small Multics clone machine. GMP has an update on last week's joke, but he has left already, so we'll have to wait until next week to hear it. Applications: NSBE - $15 to EC - to print proceedings and make minor changes. Given. KYM - $30 to EC - text editing for 21.480. Given. Total appropriations: $1535 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1360 370: $30 To Meeting: $100, EC: $45, all Student. Coop: $60 Other Other: GMP came back: It's really GE, not Honeywell, that was the true butt of last week's joke. JIS has been flying with LRH, and is doing well. LRH has given about three hours of ground school, and plans to make his hours more public so others can get involved. RSL will be going up soon. JIS may be soloing in about 4-5 more flying hours. In Michigan, you don't get points on your driver's license unless you go over 70 MPH if the road you are on had a 70MPH limit before the 55MPH law was enacted. Someone in Washington State once shot an IBM 370 with a .45. The Mike Peters lecture is a week from Wednesday, as is the first day ofthe 2.70 contest. The Dykstra lecture is a week from tonight, which is too bad since we have elections. ***** Next week's (26 October) meeting will be at 18:00. Don't forget about the elections! ***** APO will be giving a CPR course this Saturday morning, and another one that afternoon. It's one 5-hour course. The meeting was adjourned at 22:40 Minutes taken and submitted by Charles Hornig, Wendy Rowe,and Barry Margolin.