Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 29 March 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:32 by William M. York. In attendance were barmar, GMP, DMK, WMY, DCP, CAH, JR, Lai, Naha, ZRM, WER, sleeping JSL, RK, BCN, and users. Late were: RLL, HDT, JIS, PLJ, JPT The minutes of the meeting of 22 March 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. *** User Interrupt *** Fenway House (J. Salem) - $75 - phone accounting system development. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** RLL, HDT, PLJ came in during this. Treasurer's Report: Today was the end of the month. Most of phone bills seem to be accounted for. Multics March total: $13,556.78. Chairman's Report: The chairman has a new car. WER read our annual report and has started having ideas about the next one. Get in touch with her if you are interested. Office Report: Make an entry in the logbook when you call something in for repairs. If a user needs a middle initial in his userid but doesn't have one, make up one or at least give an alias. There is a log in the lefthand desk drawer which is used when you mail out Lisp Notes. People haven't been using it. There was lossage this week when a Coop user was deleted and then he gave us more money, causing his total to not be enough for his total spending. The SpinWriter doesn't currently recognize the end of ribbons. This should be fixed on Wednesday. We will take it out of autoprint mode until then. A repairman supposedly fixed what the problem for the last couple of weeks was, but after he left, the sub-base assembly broke. A rubberband is currently holding ribbons to the sub-base assembly. Also, ribbons seem to be breaking in the middle. *** User Interrupt *** Barsoni, Mary - $150 - For doing computer work related to 8.14. There will be text editing and computing involved. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** Computer Services: Bound_sipb_maint_ and english.dict have been installed. WER and CBF have been registered on SIPBOLC. Remember that it is still possible to overrun on Multics, due to dprints and last minute crunching. If you are adding a little bit to an over-run account, make sure that you take the old usage into account. What should our policy be about word-processing on CMS? We should probably stick to our Multics preference except in special cases, like people who already know SCRIPT and need its capabilities (multiple fonts, etc.). We should sell NBDD storage in chunks of 50 records. Should we pro-rate for fractions of a month, even though we are not pro-rated? We should wait until we get in touch with Jay so he can help decide. Don't process NBDD sales yourself; leave a note for Jay so that he doesn't get confused. Multics' revenue this month was the highest it has been since June of '74. JIS did a gate_sweep of the system and found that CDT had a copy of a ring-1 installation_tools_. It is no longer a ring-1 gate. A '76-vintage mailbox_ gate was also found in the Multics compiler pool. Telecommunications Report: WER was fighting with AJ this morning about the non-delivery of our 1200-baud modems. Now they claim that they will be here in 3-4 days. We will order some Vadics through IMF Sales and cancel the order that doesn't come in first. RLL is still trying to get hold of the guy who is supposed to be fixing the broken Student Center line. The office Z19 was taken to Wellesley for repairs on Wednesday. J9 is supposed to bring us in a requisition for the last Teleray, but hasn't yet. We will sell it to the next prospective if we don't get it by Wednesday. Publications Report: We got nine copies of the Fortran manual, but we need ten. Someone should get another one tomorrow. The nine we got have to be taken to dorms. Naha brought new manuals to Senior House. Other: The new UA administration (the Gumbies) is trying to understand us, but doesn't quite. They want us to become active in campus computing issues. They want us to lead the revolt to relieve the overcrowding on the EECS computer! We should be able to live through this problem without getting too deep into UA politics. We should point them to StuFac and HKN, and give them an Annual Report. WMY will try to talk to them. Ford has received their DPS/8's. A new Multics site was brought up (Hoffman-LaRoche). There is a box of obsolete Multics manuals for the taking. Applications: Marki, Fred - $75 - 17.243 text editing in conjuntion with some econometric modeling he is doing. Given. (also $100 autoed). Zabih, Ramen - $75 - text editing for a class. Given. Huang, K.T. - Warining - dprinted parts of his thesis proposal from his Student account. He has a private project for doing this. It turns out that he was just confused about what account he was logged in on. Total appropriations: $2690 without Coop Autoed: Student: $2015 370: $300 To Meeting: $375, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $135 Other Other: The shuttle did not land today due to high winds; it will land tomorrow at 11:07 or 11:14, depending upon whether it lands at White Sands or Kennedy Space Center. EECS Steak Fry is this Thursday, April 1. All you can eat. WMY's new car already has over 1000 miles on it. Carl Hewitt is supposed to teach a 6.036 lecture tomorrow, but he has not been seen in town yet. RLL was in Texas and saw gas for under a dollar/gallon. Gas is expected to go down even more soon. The Heavy Metal fund almost has the correct amount in it. WMY dprinted many copies of the Forum MTB (105 pages each) last week. It tied up the bysinc line for most of the night and the next morning. JPT came in during this. Honeywell has started a personal computer loan program for employees. The meeting was adjourned at 20:45. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.