Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 10 March 1980 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by archy. In attendance were Richard Soley, GMP, RLL, BSG, archy, ALAN, ACW, KHS, RDM, DGH, WOS, CAH, WER, DCP, RMP, c|, Jay Patton, and BARMAR. (plus various users) Late were: JIS, HGA, ZRM, Taft, and NAHA. ***User Interrupt*** MIT Rapid Transit Association, $50, for meeting notices, club information. Given. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted. NAHA came in at this point. Treasurer's Report: We have spent $2255.89 this month. Student has spent over $1700. The treasurer went to the FinBoard meeting; he asked for $1200. Chairman's Report: The chairman did not get to Chris Wheeler, but did get to Rhonda Peck. We may hear from them sooner or later. We are still getting requests from 15.571 students. Office Report: New light switches have appeared! The refridgerator has been defrosted, and there is a notebook by the SpinWronger in which to enter strangeties about the queues. People have not been using the office logbook; they should. KTOC. More people should sign up for office hours, and you should come during your office hours! When you register someone, etc., DO THE PAPERWORK! It is necessary. Our thermostat was remounted when the light switches were moved. Computer Services: The instructions for the job listings were re-done; perhaps more people should follow them. Multics 34.16 was tested this morning; Student may be saved by the bell. The Student dir is now 62 records. Telecommunications Report: Demos for this week: there will be one, by Victor Associates, early this week (a Plato type terminal). Last week's terminal meeting was canceled since we hadn't seen all the terminals we wanted to. There will be a terminal meeting at 16:00 on Saturday, 15 March. DCP reports that the old type (current type) of AI keyboards will continue to be supported by Plasma. DCP and NAHA will find out more about the state of the world re the old vs. new keyboards. Publications Report: We got the Emacs handouts in thisis week. The survey of copying services has not progressed far yet. It is ongoing! Publicity Report: The froboz ("Never Type Anything Twice") was taken to be copied. DCP's plan for an LSC slide is on the board. Comment! (/* */, ;;;, C, whatever you prefer) There will be continuously updating copies during the week. WER has almost finished the blurb for HowToGAMIT. Anonymous ECS usage has been steadily declining; it needs to be publicized. Other: Frank Richardson, a junior at Park school in Brookline, will be hanging around for a while on a kind of work-study program. ACW will be taking care of whatever administrative work is necessary. He has no background in computers/MIT; remember this when attempting to talk/explain with/to him. ZRM came in at this point. There have been some difficulties lately with the fourth floor (ARCS), in terms of Emacs especially. GMP now has a PDP-11 in his office, thanks to RLL. FinBoard only has 3 openings. (They lost two members in an institute account somewhere, but Chuck Markham knew about it...?) The chairman has started working on the office manual (it's very out of date). The chairman also has his eyes on a carpet close-out; we might be able to get new carpet for the loft. Prof. Licklider walked in today, and asked what we thought about the new PDP-20 computing facility. He got the full explanation of our problems withthat facility; the loss of Delphi terminal room, openness to random students, etc. We should try to get a representative on the new Faculty Computing Committee. There is an article on the board about this; read it. Taft came in at this point. John Taft unfortunately had to announce that he will be inactive for the remainder of this term. The chair which dissappeared from the Student Center Terminal Room reappeared. The problem with the Multics answering service which caused HGA to lose was publicized by BARMAR and HGA was NOT the cause of a Multics crash, and should not have been announced to SIPB@MC even if it was. NAHA checked the Random House terminal this weekend; it had a 30 amp fuse in the 2 amp socket. NAHA was impressed. The terminal (which doesn't work) will not be called in until the mess around it is cleaned up. Applications: Hammond, Gerald, from last week, for text editing his thesis. Deferred indefinitely. HGA came in at this point. Margolin, Barry (BARMAR), from last week, for learning Lisp, writing his Tripples program in Lisp, etc. (hacking Emacs!); he has dropped his writing course. Given $100. Plummer, David, $60, for text editing strobe lab reports. Given. Zeitlan, Mark, $200 Coop, approved by EC. Warning form: Knox, Steven, for using Student account for 6-030 work again. Given come_to_office and null access to his files. Will remain this way until he comes to a meeting to explain himself. JIS came in at this point. $915 Student, $10 ECS; $925 total autoed. $200 Coop $200 by EC vote. $210 by meeting. Total: $1335 (not including Coop). Other Other: The Pentagon's (Honeywell non-Multics) system crashed this weekend. RLL got the lucky number 54 from Campus House. The Course 6 20 has passed the 72-hour test with flying tapes. Last week was National Aardvark Week. c| i going to California a week from Friday; possibly also RDM. Hardware Wars was around last weekend. Dr. Strangelove was on TV last weekend. Why Man Creates is coming to Off the Wall. The meeting was adjourned at 21:43. Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Mark Soley.