Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 5 April 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:35 by William M. York. In attendance were barmar, RK, GMP, Gill, c/, WMY, CBF, WER, CAH, DMK, Naha, DCP, and users. Late were: Lai, JR, PLJ, RDZ, RLL, TZS, ZRM, kam The minutes of the meeting of 29 March 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. Lai, JR, PLJ, and RLL, RDZ came in during this. *** User Interrupt *** Ulrich, Karl - $10 Coop - Text editing membership list of a church group. He is an MIT student. Authorized. Class of '84 (Rich Cowan) - $30 - membership lists and letters. RK thinks they should seek funding from the Alumni funding. Given for this term, with the warning that this does not necessarily set a precedent. *** End User Interrupt *** TZS and ZRM came in during this. Treasurer's Report: March Spending: Multics: $13,556.78 (SIPB/ADMIN 3028.33 includes ~$800 manuals) VM/370: $444.51 JCF: ??? Total w/o JCF $14,001.29, Last Year $11,409.48. Year through end of March: $76,503.04, Last Year $92,053.52. MTD Multics: $2518.91 ($602.25 DISK) 370: $56.90 YTD except March and April JCF: $79,078.95 Multics allocated & not spent $26,000. We need to spend approx $18K/month to spend our budget. We should consider a publicity campaign. CBF suggests that we write a Basic compiler. CBF was volunteered to design new wallet cards. He wants someone else to do it. WER will work on an LSC slide. WER wants people to help her design the new wallet card. Chairman's Report: The chairman has not yet spoken to Ken Siegel, the new UAP. He should take the Gumby administration out to Ken's. Office Report: Put the serial number of the device being reported on TTR's. Serial numbers are on the terminal list, so you can use it as a reference when users call in. KAM came in during this. Use garbage cans. There are often too many bicycles in the office. Try not to let them get in the way. We need more form B's. We will get 300 more. Take your cruft from the bin on the front desk. Don't put more cruft there, either. Computer Services: Motion to stop having SIPB_Daemon dprint mail for the Xerox 9700. Passed. RK has fixed it. WMY is writing a new exec_com to replace qpr and friends. It prompts for things, lists choices, and is real neat. Telecommunications Report: Nothing has been done about the fourth Student Center Z19 line. The Z19 came back from Heath with a different losing keyboard, which tends to drop characters. It will be taken in when we get back the one that is currently being repaired (it sends an extra character after sending BREAK). The last Teleray was sold to ESP, but it hasn't been picked up yet. There was much confusion about the Vadic-style modem order last week. We gave up on waiting for Anderson-Jacobsen, and canceled that order. We then thought that IMF Sales had them in stock, so ordered six from them; then we realized that they were the wrong model (3455 instead of 3451) so we sent them back. Selecterm had 3451's in stock for $855 apiece; they were ordered Thursday and six came in today. They have been tested and are working. MacGregor is currently the only dorm prepared to get theirs installed. CBF explained the usage of thses modems, as the exclusion switch is on the modem (they didn't come with phones). They should be bolted down in some way when they are installed. If you take a Vadic to a dorm, write the location on the list on the board so that we can tell the Property Office where they are. CBF and CAH suggest that we leave the security up to the dorms, otherwise we will never get them out there; we should send a letter to the dorms telling them about this. WER has ordered phones with exclusion switches for the dorms that are getting these modems. When you install the modems, leave the manuals here. MacGregor's dataset is supposed to be installed tomorrow. It looks as if Senior House's dataset is the of proper class. The SpinWriter warrantee does not include replacing the entire terminal. Ribbons break because the ribbons are defective, not because of the terminal. When a ribbon breaks it should be sent back for replacement. The SpinWriter was up and down this week and the repairman was in and out. It was finding new and original ways to lose. It seems OK now. Our Z19 warrantee will expire at the end of this month. It is doubtful that our problems with them will and at that point. CBF proposed that we get a full tool kit so we can do our own repairs. GMP says that RAR told him there is a local firm offering service contracts for $11/month. CBF thinks that we should get a tool kit anyway, because it is a useful thing to have. It should have a lock so tools don't disappear. Publications Report: Fortran manuals were taken to several dorms. RK updated the manual rack in the Student Center. There are center memos that need to go to Senior House, and Fortran manuals need to go to west campus dorms. We want SIPB to be an acceptable project for manual charging. Currently, the Publications Office wants to charge to SIPBADMIN. WMY will send them a letter. Since we are putting video terminals in the dorms, we should put Emacs manuals in the dorms. Other: There is a petition to nominate Al the East Campus/Senior House night-watchman (who used to be our floor waxer) for the Murphy Award. Go to the East Campus desk and sign it. This week (April 2) is the ninth anniversary of GMP's membership. CCC will probably be moving to Tech Square this summer, and will be renamed Project HAC. It is going to be a farm for new hackers for LCS. They will also get more hardware and funding from LCS, getting the old AI PDP-10 and Vaxen of various flavors. Gill would like to know how we feel about this and what our relationship will be. They will restrict their use to not allow course work, just hacking, just about the opposite of what most of our users do. We probably do not have to worry about them drawing away our membership; many of our members these days are not hardware and operating systems hackers. RDZ finally got around to hacking the job-referral service. Applications: Davon, Mike - EC vote to allow him to use his account to produce handouts for the ESP course he is teaching. Passed. DeWitt, Mark - WARNING - using his account to print out Chi Phi's bylaws. Given come-to-office. He was here before the meeting, but noone knew about the warning form. Total appropriations: $1575 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1445 370: $100 To Meeting: $30, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $10 Other Other: GMP made a plot of the Ford Multics configuration. It is on the board. It is a vary large configuration. WMY says that there computer room is the size of DuPont. JSL will be gone from the 9th to the 19th. The shuttle landed last Tuesday. The 9th floor is getting very tacky. There is a yellow brick road going from OZ to the Dover, and rainbows and "Wizard of OZ" posters. Course VI Steak Fly was Friday. It was fun, but the steak wasn't good. It's not spring yet. It will snow tomorrow. KAM's aunt was in town this weekend. CCC's printer is working. Their qpr software is also winning, so people will not be needing to use the SpinWriter for dialing up CCC. The meeting was adjourned at 21:04. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.