Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 30 November 1981 The meeting was called to order at 19:31 by William M. York. In attendance were barmar, GMP, RK, CAH, WMY, WER, Naha, RLL, Lai, JR, HGA, Peter Mui, and Gill Pratt. Late were: ALAN, DPC, TZS, DCP, JIS, HDT The minutes of the meeting of 23 November 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. ALAN, DPC came in during this. *** User Interrupt *** Mui, Peter - General text processing of papers and letters as they come up. Has had $100 so far this year. Wants $75-$100, which he thinks will last till June. Given $25 for this term, and we expect to see him next term for more. Miller, J. W. - $45 - needs a little more money for text editing the last few papers he has to do. Has had $100 so far. Given. Gilbert, Armand - $55 - to finish the same paper and two more papers. Has had $155 so far. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** TZS came in during this. Treasurer's Report: November Spending: Multics $10001.51; 370 $203.08; JCF bills not in yet. Total without JCF: 10204.59; last year $11,610.42. Year through end of November: $31,679.52; last year $44,198.56. MTD Multics: $901.61 ($141.34 SIPB & SIPBADMIN) ($276.22 storage) YTD except December 370 and Nov-Dec JCF: $32,581.13. Multics allocated & not spent $22,000 SIPB members who owe money should pay up, the balance is getting high - bills are on the board now. Chairman's Report: The chairman is still curious about what happened to the CCE, but he hasn't looked into it. Office Report: GMP has lent the office his Mozart symphonies and some Bach music. *** User Interrupt *** Lipton, Jeffrey - $25 - to familiarize himself with Multics, esp. Macsyma. Has had $50 so far, which he has been using to learn Macsyma. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** A disassembly of the office door lock showed that someone must have deliberately made the door cardable. DCP fixed it. We don't know who made it cardable, though. Computer Services: Should we give SIPB_Daemon multip, so he can login interactively and do things like move_daemon_request of things he submits from the net? The concensus seems to be for it; barmar will check into its environment. DCP came in during this. CRD has written new Emacs paragraph-filling software, and it seems to be a win. JIS came in during this. Telecommunications Report: WER straightened out things with Telecommunications, and it looks like Burton's phone will get upgraded. RLL still hasn't told WER about the phone lines, although he thinks he has. There is a TTR about Burton's terminal, and Alan thinks it might just be that the baud rate was wrong. There may also be a similar problem with McCormick's. Someone changed the McCormick answerback so that Multics thought it was an ASR33. JSL told the user who called how to fix it. The two 1200 baud Vadics were ordered. Bob Davine likes the idea that we don't want to be rash about ordering lots of stuff now and that we are holding off ordering the 300 baud modems. If you already have a modular phone, you don't need the special Vadic phones. Do we want to do this, since it is cheaper? (Bob Davine would like us to.) If we do, then the Vadic is accessible, and easier to steal or break, as the exclusion switch is then on the modem instead of in the phone button. SIPB_registrar's password is currently locked, as the PNT is broken. JIS will turn it back on when the PNT is fixed. Has Jay ordered the Z19's? Publications Report: Motion to no longer charge 25c/ for ECS manuals. Passed. The Annual Report will be ready 5pm on Wednesday. There will be 100 of them, so it will take a couple of people to get them. ECS manuals will also be ready then. Other: All you have to do is help one person in a terminal room, and you'll never be able to leave. Multics is fairly sick (but running). If people call in saying that they can't login, tell them that someone is trying to fix things, as the PNT is broken. Applications: C.H.Mak - Warning Form - Ron Rogus, a non-student - was using Mak's account to program in Fortran. He knew that what he was doing was against our policy. Given come-to-office. He asked Mak to get an account for him because he knew he couldn't get an account of his own. Mak called at this point, and insists that it is his work. Lui, David - Warning Form - Doing thesis work. He didn't realize it was against policy. JIS spoke to him, and told him that he should get a Coop account. For the moment, JIS has a copy of the thesis in his hierarchy. Boorlis, Duncan M. - $50 by EC - text editing. Cody, Winthrop - $100 - text editing several papers. Has had $100 so far, with which he did about 35 pages plus resumes and letters. Given. Fox, Christopher - $30 - about 20 pages of text editing. Has had $100 so far. Given. Wescoat, Andrew - $50 - to use runoff and lister for a final paper and job cover letters. Has had $100 so far. Given. Nussbaum, Daniel - $50 by EC - 6.111 project paper and a short paper for 24.xxx. Total appropriations: $1835 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1285 370: $0 To Meeting: $330, EC: $150, all Student. Coop: $70 Other Other: HDT came in at some time. Alan moved that we change our name to "Student TEXT Processing Board". Dies for lack of second. The office has a copy of "Not The Boston Globe". Over Thanksgiving, WER text edited a paper on her family's H-89 at home, to save us money. CCC has been running Unix for a year. It has been up for eight consecutive days. Not to be outdone, ML claimed last week that it has been up for 98 years. Multics' record is two weeks continuous uptime, and even more without a crash. There are posters all around the Institute for a "`Harvard' School of Government" lecture. The S-1 Mark-2 processor has gone out for wire-wrap. WMY and SEL encountered much Amtrak lossage. The train started leaving before all the non-passengers got off, and they also ran two trains. WMY's 4.201 group was losing with the Magic-6 PL/I compiler, and there were no ArcMach hackers around to help. WMY thinks he fixed it. He also lost with the Magic-6 command processor. RK described some other ArcMach lossages. The Dean's Office might be looking into our finances, but it could just be WMY's personal scholastic lossage. WOS is back from Phoenix. Lots of people had good times on Thanksgiving. Today is Dick (American Bandstand) Clark's birthday. He is 52! The meeting was adjourned at 21:18. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.