Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 27 October 1980 The meeting was called to order at 19:32 by Richard L. Lawhorn. In attendance were WMY, RLL, ACW, Mike, Barmar, Steve, DCP, RK, Naha, J9, KHS, GMP, Jay, BIM, JPT, RDM, and two users. Late were: DPC, Penny, JCG, GHuber, and JIS. The minutes of the meeting of 20 October 1980 were read and accepted as corrected. WMY came in during this and took over the meeting. User Interrupt: David A. Lefebvre wants $200 to continue doing 8.13 data analysis. He is working with a lab partner (Edmund Lee) who has his own account. Lefebvre has already used $200. Given. User Interrupt: Technique, the MIT yearbook, represented by John Lepingwell, wants $250 to edit essays for inclusion in this year's yearbook. Given. Treasurer's Report: So far this month we have spent $10,773.97. The fiscal month will end on 29 October. Disk usage is about $4000. There will be new rates some time soon. They have to be approved by the MIT Corporation first. Hopefully they will go into effect around November 15th. At this point there was a discussion of the correct procedure for starting meetings. User Interrupt: MIT Rocket Society, represented by Martin Huber, wants $200 for computer experimentation and administrative use. Given. Chairman's Report: The Chairman sent the terminal proposal to Wes Burner. Roger Roach came down and asked some questions about this. The ACM will be holding their programming contest on Multics this Saturday. The Chairman went to talk to Jean Bonney. He mentioned the lossage with Students charging manuals to the Student project. She told him to go talk to Carolyn Lang who was out sick. It is not clear if the center wants to buy the Spinwriter anymore. Jean Bonney gave us free license to use discretion in printing multiple copies of things on the Spinwriter. Office Report: There is an office. KTOC. There is something rotting in the refrigerator. Barmar has redone and posted the instructions on using the Spinwriter. He will continue to work on it. We got the bi-directional tractor feed today. BIM is looking for people to work on IO Daemon software. Computer Services: Effective November 3rd, the Multics phone number will be 258-8311. In addition, the lines will autospeed on . Users will have to type after calling Multics and then preferably to flush the wait for the answerback. Echoplex will become the default. Save_on_disconnect will become the default. -table will be the default for all the compilers soon. X1200 output is no longer spooled but now happens immediately over a bi-sync line. User Interrupt: Simon Peacock wants $250 on Troll for hacking economics. Given. More Computer Services: There was more discussion of the new rates. We will have to take the governor off shift one ECS and should do something about the "You have been looping for seven seconds" message. MIT will be keeping CPU A for a total of three CPUs. The unbound freshman folder has been processed by Steve, singlehandedly, and flushed. MIT has been flushing IDs from the PNT with some problems in regard to flushing recently registered people. Someone should deny *.UMOC access to all the mbxs in the post office. Done. If we are going to have a users' meeting, we should do something soon. We will have it Tuesday November 25th at 19:00. It will consist of refreshments and discussion. Penny will try to schedule a room. Telecommunications Report: We got our bi-directional tractor feed today. Motion to keep it. Dies until next week pending more testing. We should do something about ordering the Vadic modems. There was a discussion of ordering things. There was a discussion of the dorm phone for the office. It is still coming someday. There is a broken Teleray in the Student Center and one in the office. The one in the Student Center may have been maliciously trashed. Publications Report: We may want to think about producing new "blue" cards. We are almost out of NUMs again. We should produce some more. BIM has finished the documentation on the lister and mailing labels. IAP Report: Jay Pattin went to talk to Jeanette Hyde about registering people taking the Center's courses during IAP. We still have to work out some of the details. We will have a meeting about the IAP Multics Course. Other: DPRESS sort of works. The office manual rack was restructured. CAH is in Phoenix for 2 weeks. Applications: To Meeting: $1475 David A. Lefebvre given $200 as above. Technique given $250 as above. MIT Rocket Society given $200 as above. Simon Peacock given $250 as above. CSC wanted $75 for hacking mailing labels. Deferred until they come to a meeting and explain what is going on. Naha was given $50 for 6.034 and papers. JCG was given $200 for papers. Newton Loui was given $100 for 21.730 papers. Barmar was given $100 for hacking emacs. Steve LeBlanc was given $100 for learning PL/I. KHS was given $25 for papers. Autoed: $2450 (all Student) Total appropriations: $3925 (without Coop) Coop: Gordon given $200 for Aero-Astro work in Fortran. Other Other: JSL was looking for people to help with his UMOC campaign. We will give him access to the Student mailboxes after all. BBN has pleaded guilty to overcharging the government on computer contracts. Some people went to NYC for pastries. It was so-so. Penny et. al. finished painting their apartment. WMY may get the people on the third floor of his house to move out within the next week. The meeting was adjourned at 22:30 into birthday cake for Multics, CWH, CRD, MLK, and ZRM. Minutes taken and submitted by Allan C. Wechsler with assistance from Richard Kovalcik, Jr. ;; Local Modes: ;; Mode:TEXT ;; LISP ) Hack:1 ;; Auto Fill Mode: ;; Fill Column:70 ;; Fill Prefix: ;; END: