Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 22 December 1980

	The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by Richard L. Lawhorn.
		
		In attendance were WER, JSL, c|, J9, RLL, RK, ACW, GMP,
		CAH, and Bruce Nemnich.
			
		The minutes of the meeting of 15 December 1980 were
		read and accepted as corrected.

		We were introduced to Bruce Nemnich, who may be
		interested in becoming a member.

	Treasurer's Report:

		So far this month we have spent $9899.73, of which
		about $2100 is disk, $2800 was spent in the last week,
		and $700 were spent last night.

	Chairman's Report:

		RLL filled in for the Chairman at the CCE meeting.
		Only Hulsizer, Corbato, Saltzer and RLL showed up.
		They talked about word processing, trying to invent a
		benchmark for guessing the cost of preparing a page of
		text.

		It was mentioned at the CCE meeting that a truly naive
		user is at a disadvantage when faced with a Multics.

		They were originally going to discuss scientific
		computing at this meeting, but did not get around to
		it: they will do so at the next CCE meeting on 5
		January, 1980.

	Office Report:

		The office is a mess.

		We have soda.

		The Multics Rates Chart was redone by Christman.

	Computer Services:

		A cleanup will be done the first week in January.

		Should members on the SIPBADMIN project have the same
		password in MC as on Multics?  Probably not, since
		passwords on MC are not secure.

	Telecommunications Report:

		The LA 120 was fixed.

		The Center is writing a quick reference guide to
		available services, listing hours and so on.  JSL told
		them to list terminals that will be available at EECS.

	Publications Report:

		The Gold Cards were printed.  They had six typos and a
		major omission.  We spent $87.50 getting them printed.
		We will throw them out.

		Should we try to enhance the contrast on the Dovered
		original, and use that?  The Camex original was
		corrected and given back to PAE, and is probably now
		in Dallas getting recamexed.  It was decided that we
		will  not send the new Gold Cards to Beane until the
		meeting or the EC approves them.

		The person at Oakland University who ordered the Lisp
		Notes was called and told that it was more convenient
		for us to send them a master and have them copy it.
		We will do that, and send them an accompanying letter
		explaining that we are maintaining copyrights, etc.

	IAP Report:

		We don't know how to register people on the 370 for
		the Center courses.  We had better figure this out and
		find out what the special needs of the various courses
		are.  Wendy will contact Jay to find out.

		Also, we will be able to give people taking Center
		Multics courses the standard SIPB environment as long
		as we provide a list of differences from the standard
		environment.

		People taking Center courses will be given separate
		storage quotas, and will have iacls of s and r to *.*.

		Thus we will be able to give all of our Multics users
		the same environment.

	Applications:

		John W. Miller wants $100 to learn PL1.  He has had
		$300 so far this year, doing labs.  Given.

		Josko Catapovic had $100 added to his Coop account.

		Randy Race had $15 added to his Coop account.

		Eric Sklar had $100 added to his Coop account.

		Robert B. Tabakin had $100 added to his Coop account,
		which was created by EC vote.

		Michael K. Tamada had $50 added to a Coop account
		which was created by HGA and JIS.  The person is
		taking a course normally given on the 370, but wants
		to use Multics and will have funds transferred.  Bobby
		Burke will take care of the financial details.

		Total appropriations: $1140 without Coop
		  Autoed: $1040, all Student.
		  To Meeting: $100, all Student.

		Coop: $365.

	Other Other:

		Bernie has officially left CISL, and will start work
		for Symbolics in January.

		RK's car broke down late last night on the Mass Pike.

		The meeting was adjourned at 2056.

		Minutes taken and submitted by Allan C. Wechsler.
 
 

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