Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12 July 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:34 EDT by Wendy E. Rowe In attendance were WMY, GMP, J9, barmar, RK, WER. Late were: Jay, JSL, JIS, HGA, CBF, KAM. The minutes of the meeting of 05 July 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. User Interrupt. Cleoatis Evans for WMBR Cambridge $323.50 for calculations and text editing (25 pages@4 hrs/pg) for an FCC application for higher power (re: interference regulations due in 2 months), and printing of logs. They have no outside funding. Motion to give $325.00. Given $325.00. User Interrupt. MITSFS $50.00 to finish editing a 10 page file. They will pay for monthly maintenance of the file in the future. Given $50.00. User Interrupt. Mark S. Foltz. $250.00 to experiment with Honey-X routines. Has had $95.00 Co-op, also to use the Honey-X program. Says this will be his last application for the year if he gets the money. Motion to give. Given $250.00 on a vote of 1-0. User Interrupt. Stuart Atlow for Hillel. $100.00 for administrivia (text editing, registration lists, etc.) for Hillel Eastern Winter Institute. They are charging $125.00 per person and are expecting about 200 people. [HGA entered]. Motion to reject. Rejected. Treasurer's Report: 1982-82 spending: $112 399.25 (2.18% over). YTD spending: $885.54. [Jay came in during this] Motion to not give Co-op accounts funded by 8* or 9* Institute (research) accounts and to revoke last week's decision. These users should be sent to User Accounts. Motion passes. Current users affected by this motion will be punted gently as soon as the surcharge take effect. No new money will be accepted from them. [Wes says that everything we do will be on 1* accounts.] [CBF entered] Chairman's Report: 20:11- No official budget news yet. Unofficially, [WES will be our budget administrator for next year. We will have $110 000 for operating expenses, $10 000 (minus the an appropriate amount for terminals that will be donated to us) and $12 000 for telecommunications (phone rentals, etc.) We will probably be in Building 11] We will not have IBM 370 accounts until we have a budget with account numbers. 20:20- The next CCE meeting will be in 3-205 on 15 July from 11:00-13:00. Office Report: 20:20- The brown chair should be taken over to the right people and repaired. 20:21- Jay says that Co-op applications should be processed. 20:22- ED commented that TTR's are in a obscure place (under the log book). The next version of the TTRs's will be 3-hole punched and placed in the orange book and cataloged by DEVICE. 20:26- WMY has not worked on the application adding tool recently. 20:26- Jay created a new folder for Co-op applications. Computer Services: 20:28- Statistics. About a half-dozen people have been 'statisticized', as reported in last week's meeting. Jay and WER will do some more work tomorrow night. 20:30- The Tech's Co-op account. Should they have their own project since they are relatively large users? No. 20:49- SIPB user meetings will no longer be held due to high expense and low turnout. Telecommunications Report: 20:21- WER sent back the flaky UDS 212 modem. 20:32- Dennis Baron never got back to RK about the Student Center line. RK will talk to him. 20:32- Microwave link. 20:32- WILG will get a UDS modem. 20:33- AJ disposal. Somebody should exchange Epsilon Theta's Novation modem with an AJ. WMY made a motion to sell all acoustic couplers except for one AJ as a spare. Prices $150 for the AJ, not > $40 for the broken Novation, and maybe $150 for the working Novation. Passed. 20:39- WER wrote a letter to dorms saying that we should get keys to modem boxes like New House's. We also have Burton's terminal room key in the active key envelope. 20:40- New House's Vadic modem. WER had it at East Campus for testing. CBF will test it right now in the office and somebody should take it back. 20:41- DLV-11J and DZV-11AA board orders confirmed. The PO's have been sent to DEC. 20:42- UDS modems don't know about half-duplex (like Vadics). Switches must be installed. Also to use the Series/1 users must open up the Heath. [ACW entered] Publications Report: 20:43- Manual updates. Annual-Report Report: 20:44- The newest version of the annual report is now on the blackboard. WER may do some work on it tonight. R/O Report: 20:45- The date for the Computer Tour (Tuesday after Labor Day) as decided last week. 20:46- SIPB was under Student Activities in the Freshman Handbook. 20:48- Barmar has ordered the tables and WER has ordered phones for the Activities Midway. Other: Applications: ---> meeting Lawrence P. Murphy. $50.00 to meeting. Somebody else's thesis research, but it is a UROP in which he is to learn FORTRAN. Deferred last week. Given $50.00. Jamal Nasir. $100.00 for JCF; previously autoed by CAH, taken to meeting by Jay. Monitoring off-shore platforms through numerical modelling in FORTAN. Even if we approve it, we cannot give him an account at JCF because we don't have our budget yet. Motion to approve his application as long as the mechanics are taken care of passes. Motion to no longer auto JCF applications. Unofficially we have $1 000 for JCF. We can easily overrun this budget because we don't have limit-stop accounting. Motion seconded. Motion fails. Joe C. Parrish. No amount taken to meeting by J9. 30 or 40 personal letters welcoming freshmen to MIT through the Summer Orientation Program and Theta Delta Chi (but not as a rush letter). Also a UROP report (operator's manual); about 10 pages. Move to reject the letter portion of the application and to conditionally give the money for the UROP report, based upon the condition that a UROP letter be given to us. Passed. No amount. Total appropriations: $1 340.00 without Coop Autoed: Student: $565.00 370: $0.00 To Meeting: $775.00, EC: $0.00, all Student. Coop: $620.00 Other Other: 21:20- JIS and Jay bought bicycles. 21:20- Freshman packet stuffing will be in Lobby 7 Wednesday. The Class of '86 is about 1 154 strong and not dropping. [KAM entered] 21:21- CBF brought his bicycle in from Newton and will put it in the Building 13 bicycle compound. 21:23- ACW saw TRON twice. 21:23- HGA and KAM saw Das Rheingold. 21:23- HGA thought TRON was amusing. ACW thought the computer and classical animation were not well melded. 21:25- CBF had an apartment-warming party last weekend. 21:26- Jay showed us 2 months worth of Student?? bills. The meeting was adjourned at 21:27 EDT. Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Lai.