Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 16 June, 1980

	The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by Richard L. Lawhorn.
		
	In attendance were RLL, GMP, RDM, Naha, JSL, ACW, CWH, ZRM,
		Alan, c|, and RK.
			
	Late were: Gonzo, RMP, DGHP.

	The minutes of the meeting of 9 June were read and accepted as
		corrected.  

	Treasurer's Report:

		There are no figures available due to the lack of
		Multics over the weekend.

	Chairman's Report:

		The chairman is here.  The chairman is
		buying a house, and has a new camera.

	Office Report:

		Naha had something to report but he forgot it.  Some
		manuals were moved.  Yawn.

	*** USER INTERRUPT ***
	*
	*	Bill Roberts wants to teach some outside group COBOL.
	*	He needs computer time and a room to use for two hours
	*	each week in the evenings.  The Scheduling Office says
	*	that he needs to be sponsored by some official group.
	*	He should talk to Wes first, as this falls outside our
	*	charter.
	*
	**********************

		We are going to donate the old Waterloo and Stanford
		Computer Center Bulletins to the Reading Room.

	Computer Services:

		Multics was very sick this weekend.

		The CalComp is still down.

		Users added after 15 May will not be deleted at the
		end of the fiscal year.

		It has been proposed that the SIPB go for a small
		Multics system.  The trouble is that the Multics in
		question has not really been announced.  Do we really
		want to do this?  We would have to be given a budget
		to hire full-time employees.  We would have to be
		careful not to be co-opted the way LOTS was.  There is
		some question as to whether the DPS 8/20 could handle
		our load.  To offset this, it would be available 24
		hours a day, exclusively to students.  In addition, we
		would be unable to give users any time on any other
		system.  The nature of the organization would have to
		change radically.  There would be some danger of the
		control of the new system falling out of our hands and
		into the hands of whoever was paid to run the system.

	Telecommunications Report:

		There are some home-brew modifications that we could
		do to the ADM 3A, to give it clear-to-end-of-line and
		also to turn off the beep in column 72.  We will
		investigate what it takes to make the terminal do
		these things and whether we will be able to do them
		within our service contract.

		The Student Center Library will be closed for
		recarpeting from the 7th to the 21st of July.  Should
		we move the ADM 3A to the Library only to have it
		become unavailable for two weeks right off the bat?
		Is there a place where we could put our terminals in
		the interim?  Perhaps we could get space in the
		keypunch room for those two weeks.

		Do we want carpeting in the terminal room at all?  It
		generates static.  We decided to go ahead and let them
		replace the carpeting.

	Publications Report:

		There is a new batch of a new version of Emacs
		handouts.

		Some Multics manuals arrived.

	R/O Report:

		The freshman letter was lost and must be reprinted.
		The deadline is 1 July.

		HGA will begin making contacts for the computer tour. 

	Other:

		The combination to Coke-Comm has been changed.

		Tavares was in town for a WP6 (Honeywell level 6 word
		processing) conference and was angry about
		administrative sloppiness.

	Applications:

		Robert Proctor wants $25 for more work on his paper
		for the American Mathematical Monthly.  Given.

		$1065 autoed. $100 EC 370.

	Other Other:

		RK has been out baiting tornadoes.

		RMP and DGHP are back, married.

		ACW is transcribing Bozos.

		Some urchins in Allston hit ACW over the head with a
		piece of wood.  Ouch.

		LSP is heading East.  Maybe we will see him.

		Alan, c|, and Moon are still building closets.

		WMY, SEL, and RM and DGH P have a nice house for the
		summer.

		BSG has a gnome and a new cube.

		The chairman has a new camera.

	The meeting was adjourned at 2140.

		     Minutes taken and submitted by Allan C. Wechsler
 
 

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