Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 10/22/79

The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by CAH.

In attendance were J. Taft,ARCHY,Newton Loui,NAHA,KHS,RDM,HGA,
RLL,BSG,Wendy,GMP,GHuber,PENNY,Alan,ZRM,and CAH.
Also 3 users.  Barry Margolin and CRD came in late.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted.

User Interupt:
*****Steve Hazelrick $40 for ACM programming contest.
Given $40 by office vote.
*****Theta Xi wants an additional $50 for continuing
support of their fraternity accounting system on Multics.
Given $50 by office vote.
*****Mark Friedman wants an additional $150 to do his
humanities thesis on Multics.
Rejected by aclamamtion with our sympathies to the user

Treasurer's Report: We've spent $936.81 this past week
and $3151.17 so far this month.
Motion to pay Computerworld $25 for continuing the subscription
to the SIPB. Passed.

Chairman's Report: ()

Office Report: Please sign notes and put date and times on all
messages that you take.  KTOC.  ARCHY is missing his bicycle
pump. People should check the office membership lists.

Multics Report: Multics will be getting some more CORE memory
before December 1st, GMP reports.  Instructions on how to
print the quality_print queues.  The queues are now back 
and working.  A newer version of PASCAL will be on Multics
within the work.  Bernie gave a talk on EMACS at Holushua in
California this past week. The cost until the center supports
the quality printer, will be 5 cents per page.

370 Report: The 3850 mass-storage device has been delayed for
quite a while.

ECS Report: ()

CS Report: ()

Telecommunications Report: There are two broken telerays at
the student center.  There is a broken coupler at Chi Phi and
a broken LA36 at Burton.

Publications Report: NETS have appeared in the office. We are
also running low on Form B's.

Annual Report Report: Still lacking a telecommunications report
for the annual report.  

Elections: There were only 8 voting members at the meeting
and bothe nominees were not elected.  HGA 5 for,3 abstain.
KHS 7 for, 1 abstain.  People who didn't show are censored
for not showing up at the meeting.

Nominations: HGA and KHS were renominated to membership.
John Taft (TAFT) was nominated to membership.  Elections
will be held next week.

Other: Please cleanup MC:SIPB; its getting full again.
Harriet in the Humanities Dept. is in charge of the
Micro-Minds this year and will be running an ad telling
students that text-processing is available on their machines.
Harriet Ritvo 20D-204 x3-3470.
Motion to allow JSL to have a COOP project account on Multics
for the purpose of dprinting mailing labels for a Cambridge
political group passed.

Applications: 
*****Warning Doug Ng.  6-030 Prob. Set in directory.
*****Warning Jean Wisner. Doing 6-030 on Multics. [on student?? --pae]
*****Sheau NG $200 Multics for Computer Simulation of
Power Distribution.  Deferred until next week.
*****Donald-Bruce Abrams $380 on Multics for work on a compiler.
Deferred until he shows up at a meeting.
*****Warning Offenback 6-032 recitation list in his home_directory.
$590 total, $500 autoed on Multics, $90 as above.

CRD walked in at this point.

Other Other: Orionid meteors were seen by ARCHY and others
this past weekend.  

The meeting was adjourned at 21:15 .

                    Minutes taken and submitted by Richard L. Lawhorn Jr.