Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 3 March 1980

	The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by archy.

	In attendance were RLL, Alan, CRD, archy, BSG, CAH, Naha, DCP,
		WER, BarMar, ACW, J9, BIM, GMP, RDM, ZRM, DGH, RMPII
		and 4 users.
	
		Late were:  c|, Gonzo, JIS, Soley.

	The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted.

	****User Interrupts****
		Greg Smith wants $100 on Multics to complete a UROP
		project and do text editing.  Had $100 previously
		this year.   Given.

		Tom Boyle wants some money to be able to send data to
		Multics and then have Multics punch the programs into
		card decks for 15.571.  Archy gave a good reading of
		the course description, which caused a good deal of
		laughter in the office. Rejected.
		   It was motioned and seconded that the chairman send
		a letter to the instructors of 15.571 and Course 15
		Department head explaining how Course 15 is now in the
		Dark Ages with respect to the rest of the MIT
		Computing Facilities.
		   Tom Boyle was given funds on the Coop project.

		MITSeekers (Doug Pape) wants $40 additional to
		continue text editing of their membership lists.
		Given.

		Mike Meurer wants $200 on Troll for a statistical
		analysis of child birth and fertility in third world
		countries for a UROP project.  Given.

		Robert Proctor wants $40 additional to complete an
		article for the American Mathematical Association.
		Given.

	Treasurer's Report:  We have spent $46,309.57 so far this
		fiscal year.  We need to spend approximately $12,100
		each month for the next 4 months.  We have spent
		$857.47 so far this month (roughly 5 days).
		Penny walked in at this point.

	Chairman's Report:  The chairman still has not talked to Chris
		Wheeler of the SCC.  The chairman also noted that the
		UAVP asked for good suggestions on how to spend the
		$50,000 that was found.  It would probably be a good
		idea to get some of this for a graphics terminal.  RLL
		will go to the FinBoard meeting this Wednesday to find
		out. 

	Office Report: KTOC.  The office refrigerator was not
		defrosted. People were again told this week to print
		the whole dprint from the spinwriter print queues.
		People should sign up for office hours and be there
		when they are signed up.  Also people should help to
		keep the office clean.

	Computer Services: Honeywell now has the new and final??
		contract. Please do not play around with the SIPB
		registrar, especially to register ficticious persons
		(i.e. James Bond).  People who come in from the ARPA
		net and use the SIPB student start_up do not get
	       	process preservation anymore.  This was
		causing problems earlier this week.  When you use
		SIPB_registrar, BE SURE to mark down the userid that
		you extract. RMP has found a new copying service
		almost directly across from C.W.Beane's.  c| will check
		out competing prices for copying in the area.  The
		Student2 project is looking closer -- the Student dir
		now takes up 61 records.  We are looking into other
		things we can do, since we and Roger Roach would not
		like to see Student2 happen.  The installation of
		Multics 34.16 would fix our problems (it allows > 64
		record dirs to be salvaged), but it looks like it will
		be a while before this happens.

	****User Interrupt****
		Gerald Hammer wants an amount of money on Multics to
		edit text files for 21.747.  The files will be used as
		his thesis when he is completed.  Motion to reject -
		fails.  Motion to defer to next week - passes.  (This
		is to get a note from his thesis advisor). 

		Soley walked in at this point.

	Telecommunications Report:  The Ramtek terminal will be
		leaving tomorrow morning.  A terminal from J & J
		associates will be appearing tomorrow afternoon (about
		1:30 P.M.), to leave about 5 P.M.  There will be
		a terminal meeting Thursday night at 20:00 to discuss
		the terminals we have seen.  The terminal from the
		Student Center was moved out (to the Gymnastics meet)
		and back on Saturday.  It was mentioned that we should
		tell users that are going to use the Student Center
		terminals that they are going to be paying for HSLA
		charges in addition to login time. (And therefore
		their money will disappear a bit faster than usual).
		Notice that this is true for the Heath terminals in
		Delphi.  It was mentioned that the Delphi terminal
		room will become non-public next week (all terminals
		will be hard-wired to Course 6's new PDP-20).  HSLA
		charges are $(1.25 .75 1.00 1.00) flat rate addition
		per hour during shift (1 2 3 4).  ZRM will be
		producing a new Multics rate chart.  Gonzo walked in
		at this point.

	Publications Report:  The Emacs information sheets got to
		Beane earlier this week; they are ready.  They should
		be gotten soon.

	Publicity Report:  A slide will be displayed at LSC movies the
		weekend following this weekend.  DCP is working on it.
		Postering of the institute needs to be done soon.

	Other:  There was a motion to banish Benson to France for two
		more months.  Passes.  He will be forced to leave
		TOMORROW!  A prospective member has appeared; Jay
		Patton, who just started working for ARCS.  On the
		floating agenda: there was an idea that Member.*.*
		should have sma on the tops of several SIPB projects
		as a convenience.  There was no formal policy set -
		left to the individual SIPBADMIN people's discretion.
		The question was brought up as to whether we should
		spend $300 to get a new keyboard for the office TV
		(one of Kulp's new Hyper-Super-Greek-etc. keyboards).
		RLL reminded the board that we have already paid for
		the keyboard; therefore we WILL be receiving it.  DCP
		will find out whether or not the old type keyboard
		will still be supported when the new ones appear.

	Applications: 

		Leppingwell, John W. R., $70, editing for 24.231 and
		STS-100.  Has had $100.  There was a motion to give.
		Passes.

		Margolin, Barry (BARMAR), $100, for text editing and more
		learning (Lisp, Multics, etc.)  Has had $140.
		Deferred until next week, when he knows how much he
		needs.

		Huang, Chien Yu, $75, for text editing project lab
		report for Course 16.  Taken to meeting because this
		is Course 16's equivalent to a thesis.  Given.

		Douglas, E. T., $100, for learning CMS for future use.
		Motion to give - passes.
		People were reminded to remind users that 370 usage is
		not always the best thing for all things.  370
		applications would still be presented in meeting.

		Rowe, Wendy E. (WER), no amount, for papers for 21.004.
		Motion to give $100.  Passes.

		$1190 Student, $0 ECS; $1190 total autoed.
		$300 VM.
		$0 by EC vote.
		$555 by meeting.
		Total: $2045  (not including Coop).

	Other Other:  Steve Ladd, of FinBoard, has told us that the
		board has five openings!  We should probably saturate
		it if possible.  Today is the 2nd anniversary of
		Multics Emacs; Emacs was also taken out of >exl today!
		It is an official Honeywell product.  RK is on his way
		back, to work for Wang in Lowell.  Soley is starting
		an IBM 370 Assembly mode for Multics Emacs.

	The meeting was adjourned at 23:14.
 
 
             Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Mark Soley
		        and Richard L. Lawhorn