Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2 June 1980 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by RLL. In attendance were JSL, WMY, RLL, CRD, GMP, RDM, JIS, and a user. Late were: ACW, c|, HGA, ALAN, RK, Naha, J9. The minutes of the meeting of 19 May were read and accepted as corrected. They contained the word "chimerical". CRD read the definition to the meeting, which learned a new word. WMY took over the meeting. There were no casualties. The minutes of the meeting of 26 May were read and accepted as corrected. *** USER INTERRUPT *** * * Dan Berleant. Not really a user, but a prospective * member. * *** TPURRETNI RESU *** Treasurer's Report: Last month's total spending was $14724.05, the most profligant month in five years. So far this month we have spent $1329.63. So far this year we have spent $79,287.33 out of $95,000. We may spend $90,000 if present trends continue. The treasurer checked the price of blue boxes (for terminal line debugging) has skyrocketed from $75 of a few years ago to $210. RLL will check around to see if he can locate the old manufacturer. The treasurer talked to Duplex about quality-print paper. The price has gone up $2/Ksheet to $13/Ksheet. They promise delivery in 1.5 months. We still have 2 boxes left, and RLL suggests that we wait until the new fiscal year to order more. The ADM 3A should be shipped and installed within a week. Where have we heard that before? (See previous minutes.) RLL talked with Mr. Flynn at the Registrar's scheduling office about using the Registrar's two phones at the Midway. We will call Mr. Flynn again late in the summer to verify this. We are getting two additional phones for the Midway as well. Chairman's Report: The Chairman and Treasurer went to talk to Wes about the possible relocation of the Center. Mr. Burner had heard even fewer rumors about the relocation than we had. We will keep communications channels open with Mr. Burner, who seems fairly committed to keeping essential services (like consulting) on the main campus. The Center's summer courses will be given without too much ideological change. The chairman talked to Ms. Dorothy Corbett and assured her that SIPB would be willing to administer the Multics part of the courses. The Chairman was praised by Honeywell for his part in converting some English blokes to Multism. Office Report: Penny said "KTOC" yet again. The treasurer purchased real plates for the office, so we don't have to suffer with paper ones. The refrigerator was fixed so that the fan can spin freely. Multics weekly stati are being saved in the back of the treasurer's drawer. So when you get the new one, file the old one there. Computer Services: The weekly thought it was failing but was wrong, luckily. The Monthly, part 3, sent a Mayday and vanished like Amelia Earhart. Mr. Palter's rumor about Honeywell's priorities for bringing up various systems on the DPS-8 series has turned out to be true: high level management decisions reveal a commitment to Multics that is quite encouraging. Gary Palter reports that the editor TED is installed in Phoenix and will soon be installed at MIT, tangling the documentation issue still further. Telecommunications Report: The lines to the Student Center will be examined, maybe, at some future date, to determine which ends correspond with which. But since the lines are working at the moment, the need to do this exploratory surgery is not urgent. *** USER INTERRUPT *** * * Tom Hayes wants $200 to edit stories for possible * submission to magazines. Deferred from previous * meetings. Given. * *** TPURRETNI RESU *** There was a telecommunications budget meeting on Wednesday. More discussion on the possible allocations of our telecommunications budget. The chairman spent some time with the Spinwriter manual and the Spinwriter, diddling dipswitches to try to make the right thing happen when the terminal runs out of ribbon. No available protocol does exactly the right thing. Research will continue. RLL has borrowed the office acoustic coupler. We have 30 Spinwriter ribbons. Publications Report: A new NETS master is needed. Page 22 is missing from the current master, and all the pages are headed "Page of ". J9 is still planning to look through the Emacs documentation to find out which parts are incomprehensible to the naive user. Page 22 of the NETS was found. It is not part of the runoff file, which is why it was left out. R/O Report: The freshman letter will be done shortly by ACW for inclusion in the freshman mailing. Other: Charlie Hornig arrived safely in France. A quality-print destined for RBurke at USER-ACCOUNTS was filed incomprehensibly in the "H to P" stack. Please deliver dprints with destinations on them. There is a SIPB-MINUTES mailing list. Applications: Robert Proctor wants $50 more, to finish his article for the American Mathematical Monthly. Given. Total appropriations: $1160 without Coop Autoed: $910, all Student. To Meeting: $250, all Student. Coop: $70 Other Other: Zorbaz is now a Chinese restaurant, and seems fairly good, although quite expensive. There is another Chinese restaurant on Mass Ave., Wu Fu, which used to be the Kim Lin palace. Rob Phipps and Linda Lampron graduated today. Also Carl Hoffman and Jeannine Mosely (Engineer's degree). There are Tall Ships in the harbor. The meeting was adjourned at 2130. Minutes taken and submitted by Allan C. Wechsler ;; Local Modes: ;; Mode:TEXT ;; LISP ) Hack:1 ;; Auto Fill Mode: ;; Fill Column:70 ;; Fill Prefix: ;; END: