Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 21 June 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:35 by Wendy E. Rowe In attendance were Barmar, WMY, ACW, DCP, GMP, steve, RLL, RK, WER, Naha, Plotnick, CBF, c/, J9, JIS. Late were: Jay, Lai, LRH The minutes of the meeting of 14 June 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. LRH came in during the reading of the minutes. Treasurer's Report: YTD spending: $110 818.84 Phone bills are in. Some calls to Los Angeles and the University of Michigan are unclaimed. About $120 was billed for the calls made on the Next House phone. SIPB debt collectors have been alerted. Co-op was cleaned up. We won because people did not request refunds. Chairman's Report: WER talked with Corby about the capital expenses budget. There's still no verdict, but it looks hopeful. The money comes from MIT's President's budget. Wes could make a separate budget for us in the future to guarantee continuous support. What more should be done about 6.030? Nothing until the term starts. Office Report: Form B's and B1's are on the board, along with suggested changes. We must choose a color. 1000 B's, 500 B1's should be ordered. Form B's should have a new_user box. The Prestige typewheel that we got back is wrong; it lacks italics. We need a Prestige Renown Light Elite. WER will order a new one but it will cost us money. Motion to buy 2 of each kind of typewheel out of the checking account was passed. RDM left labels for forwarding his mail. RK reported that several members were given information by a MacGregor resident which was not recorded in the log book. The nice chair needs a welding job. Somebody should call Mr. Durland about it. Can we start taking applications since 1 July is approaching quickly? We should get our budget 1 July. WER will talk to Wes about how large our budget will be. Do not take applications until WER talks to Wes. Statistics for the fiscal year that is about to end should be taken and applications placed in the file cabinet. WMY will drain the PDT's. CBF would like to see the user's id placed in the stats. Last year's keypunch format was difficult to use. Motion to have application parameters as: Default cutoff date: 1 September 1982 Default: $50.00 Auto Limit: $100.00 Passed. ACW suggests that we will overspend due to momentum, although we have the same budget and application parameters as last year. CBF believes that we should set a net limit for text processing to allow users to plan ahead. Barmar made a motion that CBF's proposal be accepted and placed on the policy statement. WMY thinks that we shouldn't set an absolute limit. JIS says that the statement should be worded so that it does not appear that it is every student's right to get x dollars from the SIPB. This "absolute" limit should be about $200.00. Barmar would be happy if the policy reflected the limits. End result: We should think about the idea of a target limit. People should clean up the shelf and return books to their rightful places. WMY has been entrusted to do the right thing. Should we really save all the issues of Science and Scientific American? No, return them to HGA. The SIPBCOM drawer cleaned up by Steve. Dispose of unwanted food outside or in the COVERED trash cans and not the wastebaskets. The Office Plan has not been posted on the board yet. CBF suggested an appeal to SIPB alumni to donate chairs in return for a plaque on the chair that reads "Donated by ..." Computer Services: An MIT student and a random would like to learn Lisp during the summer only. Can they use MIT-EECS instead of MULTICS? JIS will talk to Eric Ostrom about tourist accounts for them. WMY's new qpr command that asks many questions is almost done. RK has an exec_com that moves the SpinWronger queues to the Xerox 9700. Telecommunications Report: WER talked with Mike Strackert from MacGregor. CBF met him when he picked up the terminal and got him to sign the security letter. The terminal was in storage, and not in the terminal room. It was NOT stolen. Information like this should be written in the log book. CBF made a motion that no equipment should leave the office unless authorized by the SIPB Telecommunications Chairman. Motion withdrawn. A PDP-11/23 CPU board was ordered this past week. Only 2 Z-19 keyboards and a spare terminal interface board were NOT ordered. The boards were cheaper than expected. Ron from Bartlett fixed the SpinWronger so that the tops of the letters are back. However, underscores are OK only in one direction. He'll be back Wednesday. The keys to the locked and broken New House VADIC are at the desk. It should be removed and returned to the office. A property sticker needs to be placed on it. A terminal and VADIC were delivered to East Campus. Nothing was done about Z-19 service contracts. Jay will write a requisition to Telecommunications for the service contracts. Amount is to be determined. We should get copies of keys to all the terminal rooms. Somebody should send letters to the dormitories. MacGregor will get a modem box like New House's. We have asked for a key. Symbolics' microwave link was replaced. Publications Report: The EMACS addenda are all where they belong. Minor changes were made to the NUMS. The NETS need a major revision. Annual-Report Report: Some pages of the Annual Report are on the board. Review them and suggest or write more. R/O Report: WER turned in the Freshman Letter to the right office. There was some discussion about approval of the letter at the office. Who will do the SIPB Computer Tour? Somebody should talk to Alan about contacts. Other: The TCA blood drive will be on 1 July from 15:00 to 17:00. Frank Bunn is a medical professor at Harvard. His son wants a Co-op account, but he has hired a tutor. WER talk to Wes. Tomorrow, there will be a meeting with Dean Bill Dixon about street vendors. Administrators are disturbed about the smell of food drifting into their offices. Daniel Beeghly will teach a Lisp course at Ford. We mailed him Lisp notes. Is there anybody interested in giving him any hints on how to teach a Lisp course? Give him Symbolics' number. Applications: Autoed Co-op ============ Melville, Raj J. $45 Co-op for text processing. TEP (Mike Snyder) $25.00 for processing phone bills. Tavares, Chris. $101.28 for typesetting. Foltz, Mark S. $20.00 for more Honey-X. King, Tony S. Added $50, then another $50 for thesis. Total appropriations: $0.00 without Coop Autoed: Student: $0.00 370: $0.00 To Meeting: $0.00, EC: $0.00, all Student. Coop: $391.28 Other Other: Stuntman is showing at Harvard Square. DCP will be going to Palo Alto this week. There was a party at Lee Parks' in New York. ACW, CBF and J9 flew with LRH (the acrobatic maniac). If anybody would like to learn Hebrew soon, talk to ACW. ACW also bought a 12-string guitar. Steve is going to Chicago later this week. WMY gave a guy a ride to New York. A VAX-11/750 was brought up at MIT-EECS: MIT-EDDIE. People are going to Firefox. RK hurt himself while frobbing the cover of his parent's septic tank. The meeting was adjourned at 21:42 EDT. Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Lai.