Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 14 April 1980

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

	In attendance were Richard Soley, archy, CAH, RLL, c|, BARMAR,
		GMP, ALAN, WER, Jay Pattin, NAHA, KHS, RDM,
		Charity, RK, CWH, and ZRM.
	
		Late were:  RMP, ACW, DGH, GHuber, JSL, and DCP.

	The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted.
		DCP and GHuber came in at this point.

	Treasurer's Report:  We have spent $5515.80 so far this month.
		Our spending has not gone up at all.  We are still not
		spending enough.  Along these lines, all of the "Never
		Type Anything Twice" posters were put up.  Someone
		picked up stuff from Beane for $9 and paid for it out
		of his/her own pocket; if it was you, see RLL.
		Perhaps we need another LSC slide; RK and DCP will
		work on it.

	Chairman's Report:  The chairman has started the letter to
		Paul Grey about IPC being moved.  DGH and RMP came in
		at this point.

	Office Report:  TKCO.  We have more NUMS and NETS!  HGA and
		KHS did a major redistribution of the tops of cabinets
		and desks; it wins.  The book sign-out list is
		somewhat inaccessible; it must be moved.  The office
		still has an old refrigerator; the guy who came in
		last week can't afford it now.  If you can get a bid >
		$40, take it.  JSL came in at this point.  We still
		need SpinWriter ribbons; they have been ordered.  We
		are again keeping track of ECS spending; it is to the
		left of the daily mail sheets.  IPC Bulletins, which
		come in every 2 months, need to be put in the Bulletin
		binder.  Do so when they come in.  DPC snarfed a New
		Whole XGP Fonts Catalogue for the office.  Recharging
		the refrigerator will cost about $35.  There was a
		motion that the SIPB pay for the recharge - fails.
		The office was waxed last Thursday.  Al, our usual
		waxer, has put in for Campus Patrol; he won't be
		waxing our floor anymore.

	Computer Services:  CAH wrote a graphics dim for the Retro-
		Graphics 512.  Paul Green has left CISL.  The SIPB
		Attic has about 80 records left.  There was a motion
		that >nbdd>sipb>Attic no longer have a separate quota
		cell from >nbdd>sipb.  There was an alternate motion to
		give *.SIPBADMIN sma on >nbdd>sipb.  Passes.  There
		was a motion to buy another 1000 records of nbdd -
		Passes.  An unofficial office policy was set that Coop
		accounts should be limited to $500 (i.e., brought to
		meeting again if the user reaches $500).

	CS Report:  CAH reimplemented the runtime system in PL/1.  CAH
		announced that he and GMP might give a short course in
		CS for those who might be interested in working on it
		this summer.

	Telecommunications Report:  There seems to be a software bug
		in the IO Daemon that causes the output device to beep
		and quit while outputting the tailsheet.  It seems to
		be happening on the LA120 and the SpinWriter.  The
		Random Hall terminal is working now.  There was a
		motion to buy the ADM3A screen with the Retro-Graphics
		option, with a service contract, as our graphics
		terminal.  Since Course 6 is locking up Delphi and
		hooking all of their terminals to their DEC-20, we
		need to find some place to put new terminals and put
		them there.  On the motion to buy an ADM3A with
		Graphics - Passes.  There was a motion to sell the
		SpinWriter to IPC on the condition that it remain
		running the way it is - Passes.  ACW came in at this
		point.

	Publications Report:  We got NUMS and NETS; a postering was
		done.  We need new Form B's and Emacs handouts.  JSL
		will take care of the Emacs handouts.

	Publicity Report:  We will have another LSC slide next week.  See
		the blackboard this week.

	Other:  RMSoley has just finished a huge move of old minutes
		(from 1976 to 1979) to the SIPB Attic
		(>udd>sipb>attic>m>old_minutes) to get rid of the huge
		amounts of space we are using on MC.  There was talk
		of a field trip to the DEC mill in Maynard.

	Applications: 

	Carley, Dr. Adam A MIT '61, unknown amount, for personal text
		editing papers, letters, patents.  (Coop) Given.

	TCA (Steve Schwartz), $250, for doing HowToGAMIT.  Given by EC
		vote.

	Sinclair, Ken, $50, for continuation: learning Multics, Lisp,
		etc.  Given.

	Kaplan, Bruce, no amount, for CMS, for analysis of survey on
		small claims court.  Deferred until he shows up.

		$1280 Student, $0 ECS; $1280 total autoed.
		$0 Coop
		$250 by EC vote.
		$0 VM
		$50 by meeting.
		Total: $1580   (not including Coop).

	Other Other:  Hopefully everyone noticed the interesting nose
		gear that ALAN is wearing tonight, in honor of the
		Seventh Era of the Unicycle.  Blue forms from IAP need
		to be filed with the regular old forms.  The office
		should get a Macsyma manual!  Soley will buy one
		tomorrow.  DCH, before he left in 1976, retyped all
		the old minutes that needed to be typed!  The office
		manual is still on the board; comment on it.

	The meeting was adjourned at 22:00.
 
          Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Mark Soley.