Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 22 June 1981 The meeting was called to order at 19:32 by William M. York, who's hair looked fine. In attendance were Barmar, GMP, CAH, KYM, WMY, SEL, RK, JSL, RDM, DCP, RLL, Alan, c/. Late were: PAE, JPT, JIS, Jay, ACW, DMK The minutes of the meeting of 15 June 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. PAE, DMK, JIS came in during this. Treasurer's Report: Month to date: $2515.75 - $1275.77 Coop = $1239.98; $113,008.86 year-to-date without June fixed costs. All 370 users except three were cut off this week. Phone bills are in. There are some phone calls to Oberlin originating from an office in the Psychology Dept. CAH says we are losing with research accounts. There is a problem with req's coming from research accounts to us for Coop accounts; the auditors want documentation. This is a problem for the Treasurer and other knowledgeable people to take care of. JPT came in during this. Chairman's Report: DCH is around. At one point, four SIPB chairmen converged at CISL. WMY has been working (slowly) on the new freshman letter. WMY hasn't been able to get hold of the FinBoard people. WMY saw Prof. Hulsizer the other day, and talked about the CCE (which is sleeping for the summer). Office Report: The office is a pseudo-tty. Barmar is missing a book on Z80 programming. The office hasn't been redesigned yet. Computer Services: There was a lesson on taking green Form B's. Until the new money, the form should go into Limbo. There is a problem with figuring out a person's default project (which the "register" program asks) before the program tells you the userid. A tool for SIPB_registrar may get written, but it may take time to get it installed. Until then, use "print_pnt" to figure out what the userid will be. On July 1, all the forms in Limbo will get processed. Most will be autoable. The Auto Limit for next year will be $100. WMY predicts that we will start spending next years money after next Monday's meeting. Jay came in during this. Don't forget about telling new users about the new rates. The new rates charge for CPU-time during shifts 1,2, and 4. Individual user spending will probably double relative to the old rates. PAE will typeset a new rate chart. In the SIPB Public Library, there is a broken version of exec_com. It will be de-installed. We are getting ripped off on Coop from over-runs. Most of it is a $200 over-run by Tamada, who has left the Institute. We have to set a policy with Coop accounts, such as deleting accounts shortly after a person's cutoff, if he doesn't give us more money. We would have to let the users know. JIS suggests that we talk the Center into taking over the Coop project financially, with us as the administrator. CAH suggests that we just set up a project for each user, so that User Accounts can bill them through normal channels. JSL suggests that we delegate someone to talk to the appropriate people about what the appropriate channnels are. WMY and Jay will. Naha says that we might be able to set it up so that it gets charged to a Student Account. The problem with this project-per-user scheme is that we can't create projects ourselves. We will bring all the Public Library stuff back online. Telecommunication Report: RLL talked to someone from the registrar's office about how they are handling phones for DuPont. They, and we, are going to order them for DuPont, and handle switching them if the MidWay won't be there. RLL talked to Telecommunications about dedicated lines for dormitories. DormPhone is very busy, and probably won't be able to help us until the winter. We could lease lines from the Phone Co. if we wanted lines sooner. We will try to get more information, such as prices, from Telecommunications. ACW came in during this. Someone has to talk to RAR about getting more HSLA lines for Multics, for the whatever new terminals we install. A girl today tried to use a tieline to call the Wellesley computer. It doesn't seem to work, as the tieline doesn't have enough transmitting power. RLL says that there is a problem with the Wellesley computer that makes it difficult to use at 1200 baud. CAH suggests that we make another of the Vadics in the Student Center class F, so it can call the Wellesley computer. JSL suggests that someone lease a line to Wellesley for the Student Center, or that some 258 extensions be put there. RDM will talk to the MIT-Wellesley Exchange about such things. We are still being charged for the Baker dataset. A demo for the VT100 graphics upgrade has not been set up. RLL has Chaos interface equipment for our 11. The terminals in the Student Center seem to be working. Someone from WMBR came in today to ask for paper for the SpinWriter they say we gave them. None of us remember giving it to them. We gave them the paper. The person from WMBR is confused. We have to figure out what we are going to do about installing new terminals in the dorms. We shouldn't order terminals until we have places to put them. Maybe we should talk Leo Ryan into leaving the IPC pool room open 24hours/7days and letting us put our terminals there. Publications Report: Green Form B's are in. Jean Bonney gave us the new VM/SP manuals this week. Publications was missing 6 of the manuals, and we asked them to order 3 of them. They are worth over $200. They should be put into the manual rack. CWH and Barmar will update the wall documentation in the Student Center and Pool Room. We have to start writing new user documentation. WMY will try to organize this. R/O Report: We already talked about everything under other reports. Other: JPT is starting to win with his ArcMach ringnet. Barmar hasn't called Fred Richardson. Applications: Ling, Hao - $20 to finish working on a UROP report. Given. Lengster, Milagros - $30 to EC - to write letters to banks for a research project. Educational Studies Program - $20 to EC - to edit text for registration material. Total appropriations: $70 without Coop Autoed: Student: $70 370: $0 To Meeting: $20, EC: $50, all Student. Coop: $30 Other Other: There is a new Muppet Movie, called "The Great Muppet Caper". It may make it to LSC this fall. DCP met David A. Plummer, and they talked about cubes. "Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" episode 3 tonight. We have a new Harvard Square theatre schedule. KYM went Maryland this weekend. HGA will be going to a Unix User's Meeting. PAE went to EST training. There will be a new version of continuum online tomorrow. WMY and DCH went to Symbolics today and saw their new A-machine, which is their LispMachine. Their machine will be on the Chaosnet any day. BEE is driving back from California with a woman with whom he is going to live. The meeting was adjourned at 21:22. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.