Minutes of the SIPB Smoke-Filled Room Meeting, 1/13/82 From 19:00 until 19:30, DCP put the terminal inventory on the board, and WER put living group status on the board. WER explained the meaning of all the stuff written on the board, and then called the meeting to order at 19:37. At the warm-up smoke-filled room, we decided we should buy 13 Z19's and 3 TTY43's. We have already purchased 4 Z19's. In order to fill all the requests we received, we would need to buy an additional 9 Z19's. Could a Teleray be put in a frat? That seems to be the only alternative to selling them. Dennis Baron gave us an estimate of the end of the summer at the very earliest for setting up more dormphone lines to the dorms (which we need to implement "The Big Plan" discussed at the warm-up smoke-filled room.) After allocating one terminal (of the type requested) to every living group asking for a terminal, we still have 3 LA36's left. We should put them in dorms that can use them in addition to their requested video terminals. There is much discussion of what type of couplers and modems we should get and how we should pay for them. The issue is that we should not increase Chuck Libby's operating expense budget, so we should buy rather than rent them. We still owe him a proposal for the datasets we ordered to be installed this past term. We are not even allowed, technically, to rent a new one for Senior House, so we will buy them a trisexual modem. Modem and Coupler Purchasing, New Rental 6 1200/300 baud trisexual modems (Vadic-like) 4 300 baud acoustic couplers (AJ) 1 300 baud 113 dataset (rent) Accounting: Remaining Cap. Exp. Budget ........$17000 10 Z19's at $600 .................. 6000 4 300 baud at $200 ............... 800 6 1200 baud at $700 ............... 4200 ------------------ $ 6000 left of Cap. Exp. $$ What about service for the Z19's? Zenith doesn't supply service contracts. We shouldn't get them until we can get service contracts. RK suggests that we have enough money to buy 10 VT100's. We could get a spare so that we can get the factory service plan from Zenith (or instead of buying a spare, we could designate the Student Center's Z19 as a spare). Z19 service contracts will probably be available in a year, anyway. The statistical multiplexor would cost $8500 (for the PDP 11). Perhaps we should approach the Networking Group and ask them to subsidize our networking project in the Student Center, since we will be short by $2500. WMY proposed that we adopt the above plan for terminals and modems, and leave the $6000 unallocated for the moment. The possible (??) Building 39 move has no bearing on this. The motion was approved unanimously, believe it or not. People should look around to see if we can get exact quotes on modems and datasets. Teminal Allocations: ADP/WILG - Z19 AEPi - LA36 BTP - TTY43 Burton - LA36 CP - TTY43 DTD - LA36 DU - Z19 Eastgate - Z19 EC - LA36 ET - LA36 Fenway - Z19 MacGregor - Z19, LA36 McCormick - VT100 New House - Z19, LA36 Next House - Z19, LA36 PDT - LA36 PGD - Z19 PKS - LA36 PSK - TTY43 Random - LA36 Senior - LA36 Student - LA36 ZBT - Z19 Terminal distribution: TTY43 - 3 frats LA36 - Burton, EC, Random, Senior, New, Next, MacGregor, 6 frats VT100 - McCormick, 3 S.C. Telerays (T1061) - for sale Z19 - MacGregor, New, Next, Eastgate, 5 frats, 4 S.C., SIPB office LA120 - S.C. ADM3A - S.C. WMY proposed that we should change the $50 per term rental to the dorms. What about liability agreements, too? Perhaps we should have a liability for each piece of equipment. JSL suggests that we also charge rental for each piece of equipment. DCP suggests that the liability be a percentage of the purchase cost. JSL suggests a graduated scale of payments. Moved that we charge $50 per term per "station" (station = terminal + modem). An equivalent and perhaps clearer statement of this motion is that we charge $25 per piece of SIPB-supplied equipment. This implies $25 if we supply only the modem or terminal, $50 for the standard terminal + modem, and $100 for groups to which we supply two terminals and modems. Passed. Moved that the liability be $500 per station. Passed. Any living group has the ability to refuse our offer of two terminals, opting for one terminal and a $50/term fee, instead of taking the two terminals and the doubled term fee. The meeting was adjourned at 21:10, with ample time for the participants to see LSC's "Forbidden Planet."