Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 21 Feb. 1983 The meeting was called to order at by CBF. In attendance were Voting members: TZS, CBF, WER, Barmar, CLM, PSR, amy, PLJ, RDZ, CAH, HGA, LAI, Steve, Jay, JR, RDZ. Non-voting members and Guests: Naha, DCP, RK, JIS, Prospective members: RSW, Carla, Dan Morgan. The minutes of the meeting of were read and accepted as corrected. ->MTG APPLICATIONS (and EC) Caplan, Susan. Class of 77 Wellesley. Learning CMS, AI, & a few other things. It is in no way job-related. Motion to reject this as a student account and make it a Coop account. She is interested in doing this. However, as it is a 370 account, we can't give her a Coop account...She will come back during the day and find Jay or JR. Garrity, Claire. Exactly the same as above. ELECTIONS The membership elections of Carla and RSW. Carla wants to be like Pat and to help people. RSW wants to help people learn about computers and to flame. He, on the other hand, does not want to be just like Pat. The non-members were sent out of the room at this point. By a vote of 15 in favor, none against, and no abstentions Carla is sentenced to membership. By a vote of 14 in favor, none against with 1 abstention, RSW is similiarly sentenced. THE REST OF THE 2-MTG APPLICATIONS Stedman, Bruce J. No amount ->mtg. Data analysis & text processing for a Mass Audobon project. Also text editing for a course. Deferred until he comes to a mtg. If he shows up wanting just for the course, THAT should be autoed. Dokras, Satchit M. $75 ->mtg. Text editing. Prev had $200.00 or maybe $315, all for text editing. Given. Spitzak, Bill. $100->mtg for text editing. Prev had $200 for text editing. Given. Takeda, Miki. $50->mtg for number-crunching, graphing, and plotting. Prev had $235 for the same thing. Given. TREASURER'S REPORT Our spending on Multics: month-to-date: $7127.00 year-to-date: $69,482.00 last week: spba/spb: $1,977.00 (this is %) disk: $797.00 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT Last week we discussed the fact that our budget is in confusion. We found a few of the large items. First, there were phone bills. Then there were $1500 to $2000 in moving charges for which we had budgeted nothing. Some thousand dollars of this was for the installation of exclusion switches on 5 phones. CBF says "I told you so." The treasurer is encouraged to examine this further. There was a CCE mtg last week. Most of the discussion concerned what would MIT do if we suddently got a large number of computers from the tooth fairy. When they divvied up Building 11, it was Burner who vetoed our 1st floor room. The JCF people seem to be willing to fight to give us the 1st floor space instead of the 2nd floor space that we got. There is more floor space on the 1st floor, but the 2nd floor is near the PAI office, User Accounts, and the terminal room. motion by RK that we do whatever is "reasonable & proper" to get the 1st floor space back, or an equally large office on the second floor. passed. motion by RK given equal spaces, we will take the second floor. various people want to see who our guardaian angel should be. OFFICE REPORT Barmar : new lisp machine manual (gross green color) is here. Enjoy. CBF: new student everyone. WER clarifies the requisition and PO procedure. Bring stuff (xeroxes) to Wes' secretary. WER suggests that we should put the coop report into his drawer and recycle all of the old cruft. COMPUTER SERVICES JR: sipbolc running out of $ again. ramin: we still print out the shift one message on login, and a warning right before shift one happens. RK believes that shift 1 is 2 times as expensive as other shifts. It is only 40% more, actually. motion by RDZ to punt shift 1 message. passed. TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORT [we engaged in a little of time travel and almost bought old crufty terminals] (not really) We should consider the SICK hous (282 mem drive) for terminals. [concentrator flaming report] Naha is busy and cant figure out how to make cables work. RK would like to not have the z19's and UDS's brought to the office from the frats when they break. We reach compromise by agreeing to have the frats check with us before bringing the equipment in. Now, really about the concentrator flaming: [RDZ becomes chair] CBF wants to buy another 11. HGA says we might get some flacons (small 11's) from eric. Barmar wants to not talk about user interfaces because he feels that there is not much to interface with. Naha thinks that a backplane will take a long time to manage and that that is unacceptable. The falcons will run minits. RK doesn't think that we should shut the concentrator off from development. CBF explains the theory behind concentrators. Lots of reliability worries. motion by RK to continue to allow people to continue development until we get another machine or move to the stu cen. motion withdrawn. motion by CBF to buy a second machine consisting of up to 2500$ of equip (which is a 50kb modem and some 11 cards). passes. TERMINAL REPORT barry says we only have 1 box of LA120 paper. someone should change the stu cen ribbon PUBLICATIONS REPORT ANNUAL-REPORT REPORT R/O REPORT IAP REPORT OTHER 1/3 as many applications as usual and 13 of them were for computing, rather than text. DCP had dinner with the first SIPB chairman, and the inventor of the ether net. Barmar presents WER with a gavel for being chair. All clap. The ex-chair turns red and is speechless. APPLICATIONS Total appropriations: $ (without Coop) Autoed: Student: $1(10) + 2(40) +28(50) +7(60) +1(70) +1(75) +5(80) +1(85) +1(90) +4(100) = $3040 370: $0 EC: Student: $0 370: $0 To Meeting: Student: $225 370: $0 Coop: $120.00 OTHER OTHER dinner tomorrow at 5 pm at next house country kitchen. come one come all and come on time. There was a fire at BU. The firemen broke all of the windows. why? Minits can now open a connection to another terminal. The meeting was adjourned at Minutes taken and submitted by KAM then Clark Kent.