MINUTES OF THE S.I.P.B. MEETING OF OCTOBER 17TH, 1977.


The meeting was called to order at 19:31 by DCH
In attendance were DCH, CRD, RDM, AB, RLL, GMP, RK, DLW, OTA, CAH
(Charlie Hornig), BSG, LSP, DAS, KLE, HIC, and RK.
JLF, CBF, and MLK came in late.

The minutes of the previous week's meeting were read and accepted
as corrected.  JLF walked in at this point.

Treasurer's Report:  No treasurer.

Chairman's Report:  Chairman but no report.

Office Report:  No Office ("You call this an office?  This place is
a mess." -JLF). CBF walked in at this point.  DCH bought a new date
stamp for the office as the old one was wearing out.  We just found
out that the old office refigerator went to the building 66 trash
disposal but did not fit in it.

370 - 168 Report:  The three megs did not go in over the weekend.
They are having trouble with parity and talking to the io channels.
VM will still come up by the 24th.  Cambridge Memories will work
every night until done.  MLK walked in at this point.  There will
be a free test session of TSO this week under MVT under VM.
CMS comes up for users probably in December or January.  It will be
avaiable to staff in November.

Motion to terminate all services on the 370 by DLW.  Ruled out of
order by the chairman.

Multics Report:  The Calcomp 905 graphics dim doesn't work at all
any more.

We got project aliases for Student (st), SIPB (sipb), and SIPBADMIN
(spba).  There was a discussion of whether or not the alias for Student
should be st or student.  It was generally agreed that it should be
student.

BSG's book on the Multics storage system hasn't arrived yet.

CS REPORT:  Error messages are up thanks to GMP.  The last two pointers
in CS have been eliminated.  GMP will put in a stack algorithm for the
runtime and work on save/load.  The governor stuff should also be
rewritten.

We might be able to release CS to the annonymous users now.

Also it was noted that CS is available as annonymous SIPB.

ECS Report:  null().

APL Report:  BSG2is looking for TSO workspaces to convert to Multics.
Bernie has a program to convert them.

KLE made the comment that we have no info on APL for people interested
in it.  It was suggested that he write it.

Telecommunications Report:  The MacGregor terminal still doesn't work.

DCH commented that the wheels attached to the print head on decwriters
seen to get stuck with cloth.  This may be why the ribbons shred so
often.

KLE suggested that we might buy LA180 ribbons instead of LA36 ribbons
as they last longer.

The Deans' Office may be buying East Campus a VT52.

The next letter we send out to the dorms and frats should state that
they should not move any equipement without our permission.

Also we should send out letters about redistributing the terminals.

Publications Report:  null().

IAP Report:  The deadline for getting IAP listings into the first
guide is this Wednessday.  We will give both courses (LISP and
advanced Multics).

The was some discussion of the whether we should provide scholarships
for Students in IPC courses.  It was pointed out that it might be a
lot of money.  There was lots of discussion about this.  Someone should
go talk to them upstairs.

We  might want to run an IAP activity of anything with computers you
can think of with free consulting too.

There was a discussion of what we should name the LISP course this
year.  A decission will be made.
^J
Other:  Someone was inquiring into doing some sorting on the 370.

We are out of NUMs.

We will make cards!!!

HIC (Howard I. Cannon) and RLL (Rick L.  Lawhorn) were both nominated
for membership.  The election will be next week.

There was a discussion of moving the meeting time up because of the
Carl Sagan lecture.  It was decided to hold the meeting at 6:15.

CAH (Charles A. Hornig) was also nominated for membership.

Applications:

$590 total, $540 auto, $50 given (Caan to learn PL/1 and practice
fortran wanted $100).

Other Other:  null().

The meeting was adjourned at 20:31.


Minutes taken and submitted by RK.