Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 9 June, 1980 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by Richard L. Lawhorn. In attendance were RLL, GMP, RDM, Naha, JSL, ACW, CWH, ZRM, Alan, RK, and J9. Late were: Gonzo, The minutes of the meeting of 2 June were read and accepted as corrected. *** USER INTERRUPT *** * * * Paul Czarnecki is in hot water with Course 6 because * he used their money for doing some of his own stuff. * Some of the work was someone's thesis (not Mr. * Czarnecki's). He used up about $300. Prof. Adler is * very upset and wants to bill Mr. Czarnecki. Gonzo and * Soley were censured for adding the $300 to Czarnecki's * account on the 6-912 project after and will write a * letter to the effect that they did not act as SIPB * members. There was a motion to give Mr. Czarnecki * up to $150 to cover that part of Mr. Czarnecki's debt * that the ARCS project does not. Passed. * * *** TPURRETNI RESU *** Treasurer's Report: So far this month we have spent $3491.42. Projected year's expenditure is still near $90,000. Chairman's Report: The chairman is not here: he has a meeting with a real estate broker. The chairman was an usher at RMP's wedding. Office Report: Naha labeled the unlabeled drawers around the office. People who keep drawers should keep them labeled. There will be three high school students hanging around the office this summer: Fred Richardson, Emily Koumans, and Mark Koumans. There is a new Center service called the outside mailing service. The destination field will read OSM followed by four digits, or IPC/OSM followed by four digits. Output of this kind from the Spinwriter should be taken across to Dispatch. There are pieces of Spinwriter output from February in the output shelf. They should be left there for a while yet: six months is a reasonable limit. The office was waxed. They hung a warning notice on the door which no one read. Thus the whole thing was a complete surprise. The waxing job was OK, however. Someone named CGWL or CWGL has been borrowing books from the SIPB library. Try to catch him at it. Computer Services: Rumors from Mr. Palter: Olin Sibert has quit the Center and will eventually go to work for CISL. In the interim he is working for Frankston at Software Arts. The delay is because Olin refused to sign the standard contract, and wants to be able to market products he develops on his own time. Mr. Palter is also leaving the Center. We will need someone to be a liaison with the Center. Mr. Palter will also be working for CISL. He has signed the standard contract. The new Multics hardware is really going to arrive, someday, maybe. New memory and new front ends will be the first things to show up, sometime in July. There will be lots of high speed lines available. A new IBM machine is also going to show up to do payroll. Everyone added after 1 June 1980 will be extended over the summer. The Calcomp plotter is broken. People asking for their ECS plots should be told this. Break it to them gently. No one know when it will be back up. There is a new exec_com. There is a new mail program. Telecommunications Report: The Student Center LA36 is still sick. The Student Center LA36 dataset dial is broken. The ADM 3A arrived without lower case option, and today a field engineer came out and gave it lower case capability. When we decide to move the terminal to the Student Center, we should call them and have them do it, since that is in our maintenance contract. The telecommunications budget proposal can make very little progress until more is known about the proposed relocation of the Center. Publications Report: There will be no publications from Honeywell (including pocket guides) because they are moving their publications warehouse. Gnomon Copy has a $.04 per copy high quality (Xerox 8400) service. Please comment on the new Emacs handout now on the blackboard. R/O Report: The computer tour will be on Friday, 5 September. The freshman letter is done and ready to be mailed. Other: Honeywell may soon announce Multics running on the DPS 8/20. It will only handle a dozen users, but it will mult. Honeywell is going into the office automation business. They are aiming at Fortune 500 companies and we are pleased to hear that the proposed office system will be Multics based. We remember that Wes Burner wanted us to include something in our annual report that defends centralized computing as opposed to scattered minis. Applications: Tat-Ping Tsang should be watched: he may be doing thesis work. Jane Martini had $80 added to her Coop project. Markar Kevork Nahabedian wants $50 to hack. Known loser. Given. Total appropriations: $1070 without Coop Autoed: $1020, all Student. To Meeting: $50, all Student Coop: $80 Other Other: RK went to a wargaming convention in Detroit and had a good time. This weekend RDM, WMY, SEL, and RLL went to see RMP and DGH get married. The wedding took about 15 minutes. Hon Wah Chin and Dan Weinreb are in town. The Dehns (Joe and Natalie) were in town. J9 fixed the broken brake line on her car. The old Physical Plant person, Al, is now a night watchman at East Campus. He had a wrestling match with Heather Preston, which he won 2 to 1. The meeting was adjourned at 2140. Minutes taken and submitted by Allan C. Wechsler ;; Local Modes: ;; Mode:TEXT ;; LISP ) Hack:1 ;; Auto Fill Mode: ;; Fill Column:70 ;; Fill Prefix: ;; END: