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\foo{What is the SIPB?}

The Student Information Processing Board (pronounced Sip-Bee) is a
student organization that supports computing at MIT.  Our members are
volunteers who range from hard-core hackers to casual users.  What we
share is a desire to help other students and members of the MIT
community with their computing needs.

\foo{How do I contact them?}

The SIPB office is on the fifth floor of the Student Center, next to
the Athena cluster.  Our room number is {\bf W20-557}, and our phone
number is {\bf x3-7788}.  In addition, we monitor the Zephyr instance
{\tt -i sipb}.  We're open most of the time (including at 3 a.m.); since
we are students and usually do other stuff while we hang out in the
office, we're likely to be around at strange times (and probably not
at 9 a.m.).

\foo{What do they offer?}

The SIPB supports all sorts of neat stuff.  Our mandate to support
computing is fulfilled through answering questions and providing
hardware and software that ``falls between the cracks'' of the other
support mechanisms at MIT.

\begin{itemize}
\item Project Athena

Although we're not a part of Athena, most of our
members know a lot about how things work.  We can answer most of your
questions, and we've written up documentation that supplements the
official Athena booklets.  We also run the ``SIPB locker,'' which
contains useful programs not available from Athena.

\item Macintosh

We have an Apple Macintosh computer hooked up to the
campus network, which can be used to transfer files to and from Athena
or any computer on the world-wide Internet.

\item IBM PS/2

We have a PS/2 running AIX. It is currently on the campus network.

\item NeXT

Our NeXT machine is one of the few publicly-accessible cubes
on campus, and it is, of course, on the network.

\item MITVMA (CMS)

We sponsor student accounts on MIT's VM/SP.  This
computer allows real-time communication with users of BITNET computers
and access to some software not available on Athena.  If you think you
may need a VMA account, stop by and discuss it with us.  If we agree,
up to \$50 of usage each month is free.
\end{itemize}

\foo{Who can join?}

The SIPB takes anyone as a member who demonstrates an interest in what
we do and a willingness to help with it.  You don't have to know a lot
about computers, you just have to want to learn and to help other
users.  Our meetings are held every Monday night at 7:30 in the office
(W20-557), and we often have social events (like our annual trip to the
Boston Pops concert and fireworks on July 4, or our road trip to New
York City to see the musical {\it Chess}).

If you're wondering what sort of ``help'' you'd be giving, just look
at the list of things we do.  If you can answer questions on the phone
or in person, or write documentation or programs, then come by and
hang out with us.

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\noindent Sincerely yours,

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\noindent Juliet Bourne \\
SIPB Chairman

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