Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 4 January 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by William M. York. In attendance were RK, JIS, barmar, Naha, WMY, HDT, Lai, GMP, DMK, DCP, WER, Alan, ZRM, ED, c/, LRH, PAE. Late were: CAH, BIM, RLL The minutes of the meeting of 28 December 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. Warning - Ta-Ko Chen - She is not an MIT student and we could not find her husband's name in the Student Directory. Her directory contained resumes and cover letters that said that she was a BU student, and she was given come-to-office. Her application said that she was an affiliate and that she was going to work on such things. When she came in she showed us her MIT affiliate card and said her husband is in Course XIX, so she was turned back on. This is the person who came in and complained about us looking at her files in November. We never sent her the apology letter that we had decided to send her then. She thinks that we are persecuting her, and may complain to our superiors (c/ suggested the UAP when she asked who this was - others have suggested that Wes would be better). The apology will be sent. CAH came in during this. Treasurer's Report: The treasurer is chairing his first LSC meeting. December Spending: Multics $11598.86; 370 $275.44; JCF: $64.88 Total 11939.18; last year $11,717.65. Year through end of December: $43,690.25; last year $55,903.20 NOTE: Bobby made a couple of mistakes on the December bills, so some of these numbers are up to $100 off. Net gain for our side is about $70, this should be reflected in the January bills. MTD Multics: $277.11 MTD 370: $18.80 YTD except January 370 and January JCF: $43,986.16 Multics allocated & not spent $4,500 Phone Bills and Coop bills will be done tomorrow. If any member[s] of unpremeditated enterprises is here, could they please tell Jay who to charge the phone calls to. We spent $6.92 on Christmas Day. Chairman's Report: The chairman is here. We got a copy of a letter from the NSBE to Wes Burner thanking him for the discretionary funding and for our assistance. Jean Bonney thanked us for the copy of the Annual Report we gave her. The chairman still hasn't gotten a proper job offer from CISL. One came in, but the amount was wrong. He will kill if RK gets one before he does. There will be a CCE meeting on the 13th. There was one last week. When is the luncheon with the deans? BIM came in during this. Office Report: The office is hot, because it is fairly warm outside. The office is a mess. We should play the office game. The office now has a Z19, with green phosphor and non-glare screen. The Rubik's Snake suffered an internal hemorrhage, and is recuperating in WMY's drawer. Are we planning to renew our subscriptions to Electronics and Computerworld? Yes. The Discover fund seems to be dead. There is a weird electronic object (a chart recorder) in the office, which will give you a shock if you plug it in (WMY found out the hard way). More weird objects are on the 2nd floor of Bldg. 56. An arm of the winning gray chair broke, and was taped back together. We should play kick-the-box (or -teleray) sometime. Computer Services: SIPB.info has not been installed on the 370 yet, but will be soon according to Dorothy Corbett. The Student PDT (the one that no users are on) was deleted and recreated in order to GC it. This will affect spending shown in the statuses. Soon the system will be able to automatically tell users that their cutoff is coming up. A woman came in asking for a UROP account, but thought that the letter was already sent. What had happened was that the professor had come in with it, but we didn't have an application at the time, so we told him to hold onto it. JIS fixed the spending cutoffs of people whose cutoffs had passed. Do we want to put labels on the applications that have the changed cutoffs. There is a list of people whose cutoffs were changed. People have volunteered previously to do it. How are we going to give money back to students for their IPS course refunds? Do we want to cash the checks, or give them back. We will give them back the checks. If they only want part of the check back, then suggest that they wait until they have gone to all the courses. If they will not be getting refunded for one, then we will have to cash the check and give them back cash. Do we want to do a dump and cleanup now? There will be alot of renewal applications in February. GMP moved that we do a backup now of all our projects and do a cleanup from December 1, 1981 next Monday. Passed. Telecommunications Report: Did RLL take care of the East Campus lines? As Dennis Baron was on vacation, he couldn't get in touch with him abou it. WER will contact Dennis Baron about this. RLL came in during this. One of the Vadics in the Student Center seemed to be broken last week. Naha wants to open up the Vadics in the Student Center that require you to pull the receiver button to get a dial tone and change them to requiring one to pull the button to disable the handset. Four Z19's came in today. Three are in the Student Center and one is in the office. We need a safe place to store the displaced Telerays; probably at the EECS machine room. It doesn't seem as if we received the Teleray power cables. No. 6 Club asked us lots of questions about their DecWriter and their phone line. The terminal is supposed to be on our service contract and it is broken. They want to know who pays for their phone line and whether they can get another one. They are also thinking about getting a video terminal. People are making suggestions about whether the office should keep the Z19 or it should go to Next House. WER suggests that we wait until after the Smoke-Filled-Room. At a previous meeting we decided that one of the Z19's should be in the office and another should be in Next House. DMK moved that we maintain the status quo until we get another Z19, which should then go to Next House. Further decisions will be made at the SFR. Passed. Suggestion that the Smoke-Filled-Room meeting be Wednesday evening, 13 January 1982 at 19:30. People should let RLL or DCP know what question we have for the Networking Group soon. Publications Report: The IAP Lisp Notes came in today. They are selling for $2.00. WER should have a new policy statement ready in a few days. Emacs guides will be ready Wednesday. We should make runoff wallcharts. IAP Report: There will be NO programming contest. About 200 people showed up for the LISP Course. CAH wants someone to help teach the text processing courses. It will be four two-hour sessions (each the same) Tuesday and Thursday evenings next week and the following week. We will be needing people to help at the Lisp Course lab sessions, which will be Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting next week. Little experience required - people will mostly need help logging in and stuff. Other: J9 and RLL cleaned out the fridge when several Pepsis exploded. Things were freezing because the temperature was turned up high and it was being opened infrequently during the vacation. Fred True, the Assistant Manager of IPS Operations had a heart attack and passed away. He is the person under Leo Ryan. Four days worth of x9700 dprints were lost in a 370 crash over the weekend. There are 4.2 million characters of documentation in MC's INFO; directory and 5.1 million characters in >doc>info on Multics. WMY found this out during a discussion of implementing such extensive documentation for Multics. After the backup, we should delete all the storage of XVIISIII and suspend the project. Applications: There is a computer othello IAP activity, in which people write othello programs. Some students have come in asking for accounts; some will be using their own micros. How much should we give such applicants? DCP suggests $100 with a cutoff date of 2/1/82. Siegel, Ellen - $50 - UROP work on a graphics program. This is the one with the confusion over the UROP letter. Given. Tavares, Chris D. - Coop - for editing a model rocketing magazine. Several of his previous aplications (going back to 1972) were rejected out of hand. Given. Total appropriations: $680 without Coop Autoed: Student: $630 370: $0 To Meeting: $50, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $40 Other Other: ZRM is back. WMY introduced him to the membership. KGK (who used to be a Cambridge urchin who hacked Delphi) is going to be a student in the spring. ED bought a new van. He had an accident in it during a trip to Maine and rolled it, though. It is now without a windshield, but still works. ED is OK, however. LRH did not get his CFI, because his brother hadn't made all the arrangements he was supposed to have. Also, while LRH was flying, his engine died. He was able to get it fixed, though, in the town he emergency landed in. On the bright side, the person who fixed LRH's plane has a Grumman trainer that he is willing to sell for $10K whenever people are willing to purchase it. There was a New Year's Eve party at JIS'. There was much too much. We got a postcard from TZS when she was stuck in Utica, which is not on the way to Ithaca. WMY only payed $78 for his round-trip flight to Detroit from New York via New York Air. It's no-frills, but cheap. Because of the airlines' price wars, it is now cheaper for LRH to fly on an airline than in his plane. The airlines are also paying 1/3 as much for gas because the airlines are being subsidized. RK is planning another ski trip to NH on Sunday. barmar's car got towed from underneath bldg.39. The meeting was adjourned at 22:03. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.