MINUTES OF THE S.I.P.B. MEETING OF AUGUST 22ND, 1977. The meeting was called to order at 19:35 by DCH. In attendance were DCH, LSP, BSG, GMP, GMR, MLK, CBF, AB, and RK. SAS and EJK came in late. The minutes of the previous week's minutes were read and accepted as typed. Treasurer's Report: Once again the treasurer was not present. GMP put $1500 into the SIPB Project today. DCH said that we shouldn't write any more checks on the Cambridge Trust account as we don't have much money left there. Chairman's Report: Well, I didn't do anything. There was a discussion of the freshman midway. Nothing was decided upon. Publicity Report: DCH had an idea of producing a newspaper as a handout at the freshman midway. It would contain an introduction to ECS and miscellaneous other stuff. GMR suggested that we try getting the information into the TECH's r/o issues instead. There was a discussion of just handing out the card instead. The card is a good size to just stick in your pocket or something. User Interupt: James Paget. Got $150 for the solution of value boundary problems after some discussion over whether or not we should fund him as his work was somewhat related to thesis. SAS walked in during the user interrupt. Phone Interrupt: Mike Haney ... Office Report. Pepsi arrived. Our terminal came back. Dec claims it was the power supply that was the cause of the trouble. 370-168 Report: VM rolls along. Watfiv Report: Still no signs. DCH will put some up. Discussion of changing the way it runs with the coming of the new 370 support. There was a discussion of equipement being made available to users 24 hours a day. It was decided that this was hopeless. Multics Report: They broke the map command over the network. Tabecho doesn't work. Our pl1 command will break soon. We should fix this. We should also write one for the new fortran compiler. Detachable processes are coming. ECS Report: Down to 6 saved workspaces. CS Report: Nothing. APL Report: Only 11 records left. GMP found a bug in )LOAD. Telecommunications Report: East Campus Data Set died. Someone called the phone company about it. Other: The Dec System 20 is upstiars. It has 192 K of memory. Lots of random shit upsairs with it also. The center's softball team has made it to the semi-finals. IJCAI started today. Applications: $410 total, $310 auto, $100 given (MITSFS for bookkeeping purposes). East Campus Desk deferred (30 more records and permission to run program we agreed to fund developement of). Keston - R/O Committee rejected ($50 to run off posters on Multics). EJK walked in during the discussion of applications. Other Other: OTA's birthday was today. Multics will soon start charging for tape use. The meeting was adjourned at 20:43. Minutes taken and submitted by RK.