Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 10 August 1981 The meeting was called to order at 1933 by WMY. In attendance were GMP, CAH, DMK, c/, alan, RLL, DCP, WMY, and Bill Chambers. Late were: RK, Jay, Barmar, JIS, J9, and PAE. The minutes of the meeting of 3 August were read and accepted as corrected. The lossage of MacDonald's was discussed. User Interrupt: Bill Chambers, $50, text processing and BASIC programming for an inter-campus dating service. He is serious. He was unable to buy time from the center. He will charge people for this service and may make money. He will take $20 of Coop. Given. Treasurer: Final July figures are in, $3876.77 total. So far this month we have spent $1211. The problem of the old Coop requisitions has been resolved. Much Coop storage was deleted. Jay is tracking down deadbeats. We will probably lose $300 to them. Will the center pick up our losses? No. We should be tighter about Coop storage. Perhaps there should be a deposit. If you see Chuck Garrett ask if he is done with his project. There is a draft for a Coop policy statement on the board. Please comment on it. Chairman: The Chairman talked to John DeRubeis (the UAP) this week. No one on Finboard is here this summer. We may talk to ADB directly. Office: Penny cleaned the office on Friday. It was a mess by Sunday. The Phipps' drawer was cleaned out. People haven't been using the SpinWriter log book. The office was found open and unattended at 2015 on 7 August 1981. Computer Services: Is the Student Center printer up? Yes, but it often isn't. Do we want to give out ECS accounts again? No. Should we put on a governor? Not until we have problems. WMY's calcomp_905 was installed. This fixes the event-call masking problem. We can sell >nbdd. Do we want to? It depends on what we can charge. JIS talked to RAR about access to >system_library_unbundled. There are legal problems. JIS thinks that some SIPBADMIN people are too sloppy about access. This is an issue with some unbundled software. We will have SIPB_Consultant.SIPBADMIN given access to it. Do we want a project from the center to do quasi-official consulting? Not now, but we would like some sort of recognition. project_start_up_ has been fixed so SIPB_registrar can log out. Multics supdup was broken. Do we want to fund graduate thesis proposals? They can be very long. We could give them only limited funding. DECIDED: The S.I.P.B. will not fund thesis proposals. Telecommunications: The MacGregor dataset was reported stolen on Thursday night. It has been reported to the Campus Patrol. It is not clear whether MacGregor is liable under our agreement. We will ask MacGregor to pay any charges anyway. The phone company may never charge us. Dave Clark talked to the Student Center Librarian about putting display terminals in the library itself. We will move one Teleray as an experiment. DuPont will be open for R/O week. The Tech will be doing a lot of Multics work next term. They will lease a terminal. They want to use our spare twisted pairs in the Student Center. We will let them, subject to preemption for our terminals. Publications: Comments invited on the Coop policy statement. Penny is working on the Office Manual. WER finished the runoff wall-chart before she left. Jay just now found it. We will print some. R/O: Everything seems to be coming together. Other: Penny and Barry were going to enter last year's applications but they couldn't find the programs. They were later found in an archive in an archive in the SIPB tape archive. The center will buy a Xerox 9700 to replace the 1200, the 6670, the Dover, and the XGP. It will arrive in two weeks. It is a really fancy device. The X1200 will go on 1 October, the IBM6670 on 1 December. IPC may get the microfiche option. John Bongiovanni was robbed at gunpoint at 2230 on Friday between 575 and 565 Tech Square. Applications: Greg Huber, $50, to learn LISP and hack mail. Given. Committee to Re-elect Sara Mae Berman to the Cambridge School Committee, $100 Coop, approved by EC vote. Joyce (Sua-Der) Suen, $20, to finish old work. Rejected by Barry but she appealed to the meeting. BIM talked to her later. She is a student at UMass Boston and does not have much access to computers there. Her husband is an MIT student. We could fund her if we wanted to. She got $175 from us last year. She was responsible for HSSP losing access to the IPC Pool Room. Rejected. Auto: Coop 300, Student 310, EC 100. Other Other: JSL would like a ride at 0100 tomorrow. WMY registered someone for CISL today. We should add delete_messages to the SIPB_registrar LSS. 7 ate dinner at Ken's today. The bill came out wrong because they had miscalculated some prices. There was a new waitress at Hsing-Hsing, who charged some of us for rice twice. Jay shares an office with RSL. LSC will have Dark Star on Labor Day. The Patent Office has allowed ACW's patent on the game of Crook. J9 has applied for a patent for "Vegetable Drying Apparatus". DCP will be doing serious cube studying with a whole RP06 disk. JSL's motorcycle was thought to have been stolen, but was actually taken by the Cambridge Police. TZS has bought a copy of "The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy". Some people went to Montreal this weekend. WMY's cats have been named. The Perseid meteor shower is this week. The meeting was adjourned at 2210. Minutes taken and submitted by Charles Hornig.