Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 15 February 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:33 by Wendy E. Rowe. In attendance were GMP, barmar, DCP, Naha, CBF, DMK, WER, WMY, RK, J9, JIS, Lai, Pat Jennings, Cliff Neuman, JR, Ramen Zabih, LRH, Charlie Marker, and users. Late were: ED, Soley, RLL The minutes of the meeting of 8 February 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. *** User Interrupt *** Fabes, Brian for DKE - $100 - to computerize their books. Using LISP on Multics. CBF thinks this is intriguing, and moved to give them $50. The user understands that this is just for development. Passed, given $50. Rubin, David E. - $150 - several papers for TPP-12J, resumes, and some other papers for courses and proposals. He expects to do about 75 pages. He has had $100 so far, with which he did about 50 pages. Given $100. Gilbert, Armand - $100 - Lisp hacking, resumes and cover letters. He spent $208 last term. Given $35. The $10 he was EC-voted last week was screwed up and never added, but he never needed it anyway. *** End User Interrupt *** Treasurer's Report: The treasurer isn't here, and he left nothing online. WER thinks Jay sent CDT a bill of sale. WMY says that Jay just made xeroxes and asked WMY to send them with a letter. WMY will do it. *** User Interrupt *** Hoicka, David A. - $50 - to continue to learn how to use the plotter to graph data and format data. He has had $100 so far this year. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** Soley came in during this. Chairman's Report: The chairman recontacted people he tentatively chose to sell the Telerays to. One of them dropped, so WMY has to make another decision. KYM is now KAM, officially. There will be no Open House, as there will be no administrative support. Office Report: Noone is looking in the Coolie box. barmar would like to start up a coolie-of-the-every-couple-of-days program. Several people are against this. RLL came in during this. Who wants old ComputerWorlds saved for them? If noone, we will get rid of them. The old Discovers will also go away, and the magazines that belong to members will probably be put in the bins of the owners. Do we want Science News? No. Sign up for office hours. People are still being careless about applications. An unprocessed one was found in IN. We need an office manager. Lai will try it out for a while. A new personid list was put in the binder. Computer Services: The January submittal of bound_sipb_maint_ was installed this week. A new english.dict was installed also. JCG was almost added to the SIPBOLC project, but his userid was misspelled. Cutoff dates should be the first of the month. The current default date is 6/1/82 for term-time projects. Remember to new_student and new_user people. Kreatsoulas was registered on StudentNS, but should have been on StudentIM. The CMS version of SIPB.info was installed. A new tell_about was installed. It figures out which Student?? project the student is on if you don't say. It also gives cutoff dates, and does some other winning things. A user was having trouble writing to a file in Multics Fortran. Telecommunications Report: RLL will fix the broken Z19 line in the Student Center. The TTR's are under the logbook, which is under JJ's bin. Use the logbook and TTR's (both, often). When will we be moving terminals? If it takes too long, then we will have to prorate. JR is the new Telecommunications chairman, and will be writing letters to living groups. The Z19's were all tested, and Wes Burner's secretary should be informed so she can pay for them. 1200-baud modems are on order. Living groups that want their terminals can have their presidents and treasurers come and sign a liability agreement and pick them up while we are waiting for them; if living groups call, take down their names and living groups and tell them we will get back to them. ZBT's TTY43 should be moved to PSK when we move a Z19 there. WOS would like to buy an AJ modem through us. It will be handled in such a manner that we don't get in trouble with MIT. QPR paper will be ordered tomorrow. There was a Telecommunications planning meeting today. We have about $4800 left after purchasing modems. They propose that we use it to buy an LSI-11/23 processor and cards to be used as spares when others on campus go down, and for terminal controller cards. This would cost us about $2400, and we should use the last $2400 at the end of the term, before it goes away, but after we find out what next year's budget will be. RLL will talk to the Student Center librarian about putting one of the terminals outside the terminal room, and if the experiment works, we could later buy more terminals for the library. Otherwise, we might use it to buy a graphics printer. Publications Report: Manual racks still haven't been purchased. Someone should grab CBF sometime this week, or bug RLL. The revision of the NETs is in progress. We are almost out of current NETs, so a bunch will be printed tomorrow. The latest version of the NUMS came back last week. WER will capitalize the letters in ^ in the new NETS. Other: We still have about $400 of IAP cash that hasn't been picked up. The end of the month is the announced deadline. We have $340 worth of checks. Cliff Neuman (BCN) has been nominated for membership. Also Pat Jennings (PLJ). The elections will be at next week's meeting. Applications: DeWitt, Mark - $100 - edit papers for courses. Had $66 last term. Given. Kappa Sigma (Linus Kelley) - $15 - text editing bylaws. McHenry, Bruce - $50 - text processing for courses. Had $101 last term. Given. Piroumian, Vartan - $50 - text editing for 21.031. He has a previous warning form, when a friend was using his account. Given. Singer, N. C. - $75 - continuing 2.32 equation solving, lab reports, and other text editing. Has had $100. Given $40, as we don't know what the other text editing is for. Song, Taiboo - $25 - more text editing for two courses. Given. Sonnenfeld, Daniel - $75 - text editing for a poetry class and continuing to learn Multics and computer languages. Has had $100 so far. Deferred to office. Thompson, Michael - $75 - text editing for several classes. Spent $90 last term. Given. Vile, Stewart - $90 (+ $10 by EC) - for the rest of his writing. Spent $116 last term. Given $75. Yates, Beverly A. - $75 - humanities editing, and resumes. Spent $56 last term. Given. Meyers, Richard C. - $25 by EC - to do his resume and two papers for classes. Total appropriations: $3141 without Coop Autoed: Student: $2271 370: $95 To Meeting: $740, EC: $35, all Student. Coop: $315 Other Other: There has been a chain letter going around several campus computers. The PDP-6 has been detached from AI, and AI still runs. There was a ski trip yesterday to Mt Snow, and there will be another this Sunday. The Hsing-Hsing New Year's dinner was a win, and so was the slide show. ACW's and J9's party is this Saturday. There was a weird Valentine's Day treasure hunt at EC. Ask DCP about it. WMY ran a development run of his new TTY support today, and crapped out. The plastic things that hold soda cans are called "cone carriers". WER found out from Budweiser. The meeting was adjourned at 21:08 to cider and munchkins. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.