Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 26 April 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:34 by William M. York. In attendance were Barmar, GMP, DCP, RDZ, RK, HGA, ZRM, BIM, BCN, WER, Naha, WMY, JR, PLJ, DMK, Gill, KAM, c/, and HDT. Late were: CBF, Lai, LRH, JIS, JSL, Jay, and RLL The minutes of the meeting of 19 April 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. CBF, Lai, LRH came in during this. *** User Interrupt *** The Tech (Rich Epstein) - $100 - Continuing development of a database system of advertisers. DMK thinks that they can afford to pay for it themselves. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** JIS & RLL came in during this. Treasurer's Report: MTD Multics: $10,324 ($2441.70 DISK) YTD except April 370 & JCF: $86,894.87 The month ends on Wednesday. We should have spent between 89 and 90K when all the bills come in, so we should make 100K on the year. Gill's slide was shown this weekend. We are going to get both slides back so we can save it and use it in the future. We should probably get our budget proposal into Wes Burner soon. We have almost $4,600 left in our capital expenditures budget. We should figure out what to do with it. Chairman's Report: We will be having officer and ExecCom elections next week. BE THERE. No campaigning. We received a thank-you note from Prof. Kaplow's family. It took a long route to get here. The ASA general meeting was last Wednesday. Most of it was boring ASA business. Then it got interesting when the topic turned to how the ASA Exec Board was running wild. The Exec Board was censured (WMY seconded the motion). Jay stated (and it was seconded) that Arnold Contreras is an asshole. JSL came in during this. Office Report: There are one-year-old notes on the blackboard. The board is not a repository for ancient personal messages. You should read your notes and then remove them. The large stapler is in the Formula-409 drawer. CBF thinks we should get a typewriter. You can then feed a single sheet in (like letterhead) and not have to write letters out by hand. CBF moved that we buy one, but it failed. The PDP-11 went away. When you leave a note on the blackboard, it wold be nice if you used a marker to write the initials so they can be seen. And leave the marker on the board. Barmar and WMY canibalized one of the casters off a dead chair and used it on the chair with the weird wheel. LRH will take one of the dead chairs to give to a friend with a broken leg. WER would like to put the extra Z19 in the office back in the box. Wes Burner doesn't know when we are moving yet. If two people pick up the phone, one should put it down. Make sure that noone else has yelled "SIPB" at the person before you do. Computer Services: CDT was worried about our impending deletion of convert_date_to_binary_. Barmar and CBF cleaned up the Student start_up.ec; the Inquire stuff was removed because it takes so long. They also removed the stuff that checked the shift because the difference between costs for the evening shifts is not great, and the stuff that checks impending cutoffs was removed because the system does it automatically. JJ's password was changed due to network lossage. Don't login as JJS over ANY network. The new EXL Emacs looks for project start_up.emaces. When we are confident of it we should get rid of the individual links. Dorothy Corbett forgot to let WMY and Barmar know about the ARCS Educational Task Force meeting. She sent us the results of the meeting and various statistics about this past IAP's courses. They are planning to charge $30-$40 for courses for MIT community this summer, based upon their cost per student on past courses. Telecommunications Report: The Next House phone line was fixed. However, the 300-baud modem is still broken. We will lend them our extra 300-baud acoustic coupler until it is fixed. We are still waiting to get back the letters about terminal security from MacGregor and New House. CBF will send one to Senior House and McCormick since we will be turning them into Vadics soon. There is still a Z19 in Wellesley. A requisition will be going to Dennis Baron soon about fixing the fourth Student Center Z19 line. Tell JR as soon as terminal payments come in. WMY called around to find out about Z19 terminal contracts. They want us to give them a requisition so they can find out how many will be on contract, and then they will figure out the cost. Eric Ostrum is planning to get a group on campus together to service Z19's; perhaps we should go with him. Gill suggests that we service them ourselves; we could spend the money we would use on the service contract to buy a spare. WMY thinks that we do not have a good enough track record with just calling in terminals, and we could not keep up our preferred level of service by servicing it ourselves. Since service contracts come out of operating expenses rather than capital we should get a service contract. Moved to send in the requisition for the place in the service contract. Passed. Jay came in during this. The various phone lines have been ordered. East Campus' second phone line was just ordered last week. All the lines that were ordered previously were put in, but the datasets at MacGregor and Next House don't work. Phones with exclusion switches were ordered for the Vadics. WMY told Chuck Libby about the order for phones with exclusion switches; he was happy with it. The property office just sent us the stickers for the four reconditioned AJ's. The serial numbers on the form he sent us were different from the numbers on the couplers we got. He will get in touch with AJ and find out why they sent modems with the wrong serial numbers. Because of this lossage, we think that they might be confused about the fact that we have lost a modem. The SpinWronger repairman will be coming tomorrow hopefully. There is a note on the terminal saying exactly what is wrong. Gill thinks that we should get a new one. The consensus is that this is not necessary; it works fairly well most of the time, and the Xerox 9700 should be removing much of our load soon. The defective SpinWriter ribbons will be sent in for replacement. PLJ will do this. Publications Report: The Emacs manual went to Senior House. There are NETS and yellow cards at Beane. They will be ready on Wednesday. They should be distributed quickly. Other: Duncan Borland, the person in the infirmary, got the IPS TI745. WER also got him a QEDX manual. A sixth-grader with leukemia at Children's Hospital would like someone to come by in the near future and teach him about computers. A volunteer is needed. Prof. Kolton from Chem.E. wants someone to do a day's worth of programming @ $30/hour to write and convert some numerical programs and train his grad student to run them. Someone who will be here over the summer should take over the freshman packet. It have to be done by July 1. We need someone to coordinate our Activities Midway activities. Applications: Golding, Michael - $100 - text editing for courses. Has had $50 so far. Given. Kayvanfar, Farhad - $50 - to type a few UROP reports. Has had $100 so far. Given. Jay will read the autoed applications after the meeting. Remember to fill in the processing portion of applications for 370 accounts. Total appropriations: $3,190 without Coop Autoed: Student: $2570 370: $370 To Meeting: $250, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $270 Other Other: The 26-100 booth test slide is a picture of Wechsler in the office. Cabaret will be at Harvard Square on Wednesday. CCC is now sending and receiving Chaosnet mail. DMK has been accepted to medical school at Case Western Reserve University. There will be a Peking Duck feast on May 20. Sign up on the board. Quack. RMP2 and DGHP had a baby boy. His name is James Nathan Phipps. There is a Skylark with the license plate VAX-VMS often parked on Vassar Street. TAFT's Porsche has completed its break-in period. If you can figure out how to say "Student Information Processing Board" in French, tell WMY. A half dozen people (RK, Barmar, WMY, RLL, RSL, and JIS) went to dinner in Nashua last night. They stopped at a pond near Concord, and WMY and RSL went swimming there for a little while. RK then gave RLL and RSL slightly wrong directions to the restaurant. RK called the SIPB office and left the name and location of the restaurant there, and RSL eventually called the office and finally made it to the restaurant (two hours late) as the others finished dinner. After everyone finished, they went to Haystack to see the aurora, but there were too many lights on, so they drove up near the NH/VT border and stopped at a dead-end road. WMY's cat Felix is missing. There was a demonstration at Draper Labs today. ZRM enjoyed the Ramones concert on Friday night. The meeting was adjourned at 21:28. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.