.so archy;.rmacs > .st header 0 .st footer 10i .sr left_header SIPB Minutes .sr right_header date .vp 1i Minutes of the meeting of 8/7/78. Meeting was called to order at 19:30. In attendance: Alan, archy, ACW, BSG, CAH, CRD, CWH, DLW, GMP, HIC, JIS, JSL, KHG, RDM, SAS, and 54. BEE, DCH, MBG, and ED came in late. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. .in 5 .ti 0 Treasurer's report: We received a letter from Wes Burner stating our official budget. Total allocation: $119,500 (including terminal budget and SIPBTEXT funds). He says that he would like us to produce a "Center supportable" (eventually) text processing system. KLE found out that it is OK if we spend our budget in different ways than those originally stated in our proposal (i.e. terminal substitutions). We should make a very serious effort to produce a winning "product" to show the Center at the end of the year. It could lead to other similar things in the future (including a budget for actually offering a full-scale text processing service to our users). .ti 0 User Interrupt: Wes Burner has asked us to handle the administration of a terminal that he is buying for the Black Students' Union. This includes paper, ribbons, service contract, terminal choice, etc. KLE volunteered to handle the paperwork involved. They will probably get a DecWriter and an acoustic coupler, pending our own terminal research. .ti 0 Board Interrupt: Thomas Wong would like to borrow a terminal for a demonstration given by Prof. Larsen on 8/8/78. We will ask RLL if he can use RLL's TTY43, as it is easier to move it around. If not, we will give him a DecWriter. .ti 0 Vice Chairman's report: CBF and LSP logged into the IDC computer system and found out from RMF that we were buying terminals without them... They woke up DLW (again through RMF), who was clever enough to say nothing, feigning sleepiness. CBF called that night (Thurs, Aug 3) and was very upset, claiming that we needed no more printing TTYs, etc. DLW explained our decision to him, and the means by which we reached it. DLW explained that the decision was firm, and that it was reached in a non-shady fashon, by a clear majority of the Board (including those members abroad). CBF called again this afternoon, and repeated his opinion that we should not go through with the TTY 43 purchase because printing terminals are dead, and that we should be pushing current technology. These opinions are said to be supported by RK, OTA, and LSP. We will wait until they return. .ti 0 Treasurer's report: (cont'd) We are spending on ECS at a furious rate, SIPBAPL has also picked up. .ti 0 Chairman's report: Chairman finished a master of the "Freshman Letter", brought it in. RLL took it to get it test-copied (a quality sample), but did not return it for this meeting, as he was supposed to. .ti 0 Office report: Office manual is being re-written. Many old forms are being updated. (all of this courtesy of archy) New requisition forms are in! Please put books away when you are done! .ti 0 Multics report: East Campus Computer Facility is running a diablo service. They may also be offering keys to the terminal room. .ti 0 370 report: The Center is getting several IBM 5100's on a trial basis (charged by use). An IBM 5100 is a small mini offering APL and/or BASIC. A user was caught maliciously crashing the 370. He was given a warning form, "just in case". Motion to commend him? Died for lack of second. We received a letter from Craig Davis (user hacking for the State of Maine) confirming that he is completely done, and that he paid us the agreed amount ($250) months ago. Case closed. .ti 0 ECS report: ECS plotting was off for a month. It has been turned on again. One plot was pending. .ti 0 User Interrupt: Kosher Kitchen wants money for accounting. They already applied for this in previous years, and may have software prepared. They will check. Given $50 for development/running. .ti 0 Publications: Many old publications were flushed, some to be re-written. A manual rack will go to East Campus. Motion to put a full set of Multics manuals in the Student Center. Passed, many to one. .ti 0 Midway report: Need handout revisions before midway! archy will do. We are probably going to have a micro-mind with a large video screen for easier vewing by the audience. People will prepare for the midway in advance. There will be a meeting... Wednesday, 20:00, in 9th floor lounge. .ti 0 Other: Minor administrative actions were confessed to by various members. .ti 0 Telecommunications: We have a new room in the Student Center library for out terminals, pending lighting and noise considerations. We are working details out with Dean Holden and Physical Plant. There will be a tour of the room for SIPB members led by KLE after the meeting. We order the TTY 43's. We got a good deal ($1070 a piece, $3210 total), including delivery next week! Winnage! Last week's terminal meeting brought up the possibility of getting a cheap line printer for the Student Center. We were pledged one HSLA port (without any charge) to hardware a terminal to by Roger Roach. The printer may be a good choice for the wire. The suggestion to hardwire all West Campus terminals seems to be a poor one in light of restriction of use of the terminal so wired, and cost per month of Multics HSLA ports (LSLA ports may be cheaper). Dormline has offered us wires to dorms at ~$100 per. We can get a TTY 40 printer for ~$2700 with no features (i.e. needs a lot of padding). We may have a hard time finding a place to put it. We will check other printers, look into placement, etc. Terminal meeting also discussed possibilities for video terminals. Concept 100 is too fragile, VT100 has no insert/delete char/line features (will be available in a future release, the VT132). The Perkin-Elmer Owl looks good, but it is expensive. The office may be being offered a Plasma Physics Group TV in return for potential software development. Many scenarios were discussed. We are interested! The Center is selling ribbons and type wheels for use with the Diablo in the East Campus Computer Center. There may be a Diablo in the pool room someday. .ti 0 Applications: $520 autoed, $520 total. .in 0 Meeting was adjourned at 21:53. archy