.so archy;.rmacs > .st header 0 .st footer 10i .vp 1i Mintues of the meeting of 1/29/79. Meeting was called to order at 19:30 by DLW, archy acting secretary (CRD and RK were in California). In attendance: DLW, RLL, Alan, Naha, BIM, CAH, PAE, DPC, CBF, JSL, GMP, BSG, BEE, RDM, SEL, and archy. KLE, JIS, LAL, LSP, OTA, ACW, ED, Penny, and CWH were late. In addition there were several guests: Edward Johnson, Tom Lum, Bruce Bauman, John Lucassen, Seth Chaiken, Joe Sachs, and Craig Finseth. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted. *** User Interrupt ** Epsilon Theta: Daniel Helman asked for $100 for a room assignment program to be written in APL. .in 5 .ti 0 Treasurer's report: .br It looks as if we are underspending. It is not irrevocable trend, however. .ti 0 Chairman's report: .br No chairman (he is in California). There was not an EC meeting this past week because the slide show ran too long. It will be decided in the future if a meeting is necessary. .ti 0 Office report: .br Only diablo output should be placed in the Office SIPBTEXT bin. Leave all of the SIPBTEXT output from the dispatch folder where it is. The office acquired a dog last week on a trial basis. He was flushed. Please use the office log for all official business. The list of SIPB office keyholders has been corrected and returned to the center. The LA36 ribbon-threading diagrams have arrived and will be distributed. Much thanks to DPC for putting all of the remaining identification stickers on our terminals. The office has ED's old Nevada license plate "FOOBAR". .ti 0 Multics report: .br The Honeywell Billerica documentation group has decided to use Multics for their documentation after seeing an emacs demo. Read_mail and send_mail have been submitted for installation! Multics APL is much improved, according to KLE. PL/1 will soon not write over your source program! CAH wrote a graphics dim for the Okidata printer, but we did not get to test it as Multics was down. CAH offered micro-fiche copies of the hardcore listings for public purchase. The membership voted not to buy one, as they will be expensive. .ti 0 370 report: () .ti 0 ECS report: .br The Tech Show people approached us about advertising the show to our ECS users via the login message. The concensus was not to advertise the show. Charging for ECS manuals seems to keep people from coming in for a new one each day. .ti 0 CS report: () .ti 0 SIPBTEXT report: .br We let a user use emacs (by disabling the lss) last week. GMP made a motion that we sould let people use emacs now, as we have tested the lss for the center sufficiently. Passed. RLL moved terminals this past week. SPE => AEPi (LA36), PSK -> ChiPhi (tty43), PDT -> Student House (LA36). Joe Connors wants copies of all of our transaction on 13608. Please put a copy in his mailbox when you write a requisition. The service contract for the TTY43's has been signed. Baker has agreed to pay us for the damage to their terminal, and is sending us the contract for the next year. The Vadic was sent back for repair. The Okidata printer was demonstrated today. The 125 lpm printer costs $3900, 250 lpm costs $5300. The 125 lpm version seemed to be quiet enough for the library. However, we could not get it to overstrike or mix graphics and text. We would also need to burn our own alternate character set proms. .ti 0 Publications report: .br We got updates for the Multics PL/1 and FORTRAN manuals. Our LA36 document needs to be updated. We have many left over MACLISP discout slips, which is bad. We should try to push them somehow. The membership extracted promises from BSG and CWH to work on the LISP Book. .ti 0 IAP report: .br The programming contest is over. The DSSR group won running on Unix. We will supply them with a set of Knuth. We have found that the Center sometimes added extra IAP courses to our mealtickets without our permission. There were only two contestants in the plotting contest. The MIT team won the regional ACM programming contest. .ti 0 Other: .br The SIPBADMIN project hit its monthly limit of $120 last week. Motion to increase it to $500/mo. Passed. .ti 0 Elections: .br ACW was elected to full membership. RDM attained full member status this past week by becoming a student again. Elections were held for Vice Chairman and Treasurer. Vice Chairman LSP 7 CAH 5 KLE 3 RDM 2 Treasurer RLL unanimous Exec Comm CWH 7 .ti 0 Applications: .br $955 Student, $170 SIPBTEXT, $70 mealtickets, $475 given, $1670 total. Wenk: $50 to learn Lisp. Taken to meeting as he is an alumnus. Given after much discussion. Epsilon Theta: $100 for room assignment program. Given. See user interrupts. Romanik: WARNING form for hacking a biorhythm program written in BASIC on both his Student and Contest accounts. Has said that he will not do it anymore. Bridges: $50-75 to use Troll on the 370. Given $75. Harris: $100 on 370, given by EC vote. See last week's minutes. Gilada: $100 on 370, see above. Hamilton: Time on one of the Center's IBM 5100's. We will try to talk him into using Multics APL instead, but if we fail we will give him the 5100 time. Given $50 one way or another. .ti 0 Other other: .br JMB called at this point. Everyone said "Hi!". .in 0 Meeting was adjourned at 22:35. Minutes taken and submitted by archy.