Minutes of the sipb meeting of 4/9/84 In attendance: voting:rdz, wcs, lee, sl, cbf, whbh, plj, drm, rsw non-voting: jis, cah, To meeting applications: - Some guy who wants money for a non-profit publication for Burton House. Move to give $50. Given. - adtaiwo: wants more money for CMS accounts. Shouldn't have gone to meeting... - Weiner, Robert (known luser) : more programming and macsyma Treasurer's Report: mtd ytd spb/spba: 1438 26047 users: 8763 146398 Chairman's report: censor... Athena Report: We talk for a little bit about user numbers. People who add accounts should be sure to keep them consistent. PDP11 Report: What should we do with it? What should we do with our capital budget? We discuss the Student Center library and the concentrator. The maintenance,rather than the installation seems to be the problem. Will athena provide lots of terminals and make our concentrator unnecessary? Pat comes in and talks about IBM pc's and uploading and downloading files to mit machines. Is CAH willing to make the concentrator work? "Oh Yeah, why not" To do it, we need: 1. 2 boot cards whatever... This gets interuppted as we flame about the concentrator some more. cbf is convinced the world is falling apart and life is meaningless. The cost will be $2000 - $8000 depending on how well we want to do it. You get what you pay for. cbf, cah, wcs, rdz, rk will work on things. Various moves to authourize the subcommittee to spend $8000, $10000, whatever. Move to authorize the subcommittee to spend up to $8K on the concentrator and perhaps a PC. OFFICE REPORT It is still here. COMPUTER SERVICES jis talked to Dick Steinberg about overruns on the 370. Some flaming about giving accounts on this losing machine TELECOMMUNICATIONS OTHER somebody will be giving a tour of mit soon and was wondering if a sipb member could show off multics... -plj