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 10/13/73  03:43:49
 From:  MINSKY@MIT-AI
 
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 sorry paper does nott contain pictures. but they are
 pretty obvious. would really appreciate comments
 because i have been working on paper for about a year.
 (our xerox xgp is now working, so picture sending should
 be possible soon, if someone arworks cut protocol)
 "↓psrwsrrs.
 
∂14-OCT-73  0205		1,DCL
 RE SINTZOFF: HE IMPRESSED ME AS BEING PRETTY
 BRIGHT AND RATHER HARD-HEADED ABOUT IDEAS IN
 PROGRAM VERIFICATION. FOR ONE MONTH WE CANT
 LOSE.-
 
∂14-OCT-73  1840		1,MM AT TTY123   1840
 can you give name of someone at AMES who knows about
 pioneer 10 picture processing? Some friends at
 new york planetarium woulf like to get
 the picture (in december) more or less on line or as quickly as possible.
 
∂16-OCT-73  1058		FOO,DBA
 About Michel Sintzoff.  He knows a lot about programming languages
 but after  working on ALGOL68 is looking around for something else.
 I would enjoy talking to him a bit, and so might Tony Hoare.  If he
 is paying for himself then it seems reasonable value.  Why not get
 him to organize a manual for LISP70 so that people other than the
 implementors can find out about it and decide what needs changing
 before it is released?  We could certainly do with a good interactive
 programming language/system here at the lab - the ones we have are
 very much inferior to what can be done.
 
∂16-OCT-73  1003		ACT,REG
 THERE WAS A BUG IN LOGOUT WHEREBY FRACTIONS OF A SECOND WERE DISCARDED
 BEFORE HUNDREDTHS OF A MINUTE OF CPU TIME WAS CALCULATED.  THIS HAS BEEN FIXED.

∂16-OCT-73  0001		ESS,JMC (reminder)
 call chern
 
∂16-OCT-73  0001		ESS,JMC (reminder)
 delete minsky.req[ess,jmc]

∂17-OCT-73  1735		network site ISI
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 Date: 17-OCT-73 1735-PDT
 From: CROCKER at USC-ISI
 Re:   PAGER
 cc:   CROCKER
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 JOHN,
 YOU STILL HAVE EXCELLENT CHANCE AT PAGER.  BASICALLY,
 WHAT I NEED IS A PLAN WITH DATES AND EVENTS AS TO HOW YOU ARE
 GOING TO USE THE PAGER -- INSTALLATION, OTHER HARDWARE CHANGES,
 IF ANY, SOFTWARE CHANGES, ETC. I'LL REPLY UPON RECEIPT OF 
 SAID PLAN.  THANKS,
 STEVE
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∂17-OCT-73  1708		1,KNM
 have an interesting and fun reunion.  see you monday--kasee
 
∂16-OCT-73  2045		S,WD
 
 	COULD YOU PREPARE A LITTLE NOTE ON YOUR FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM
 OF CARD SHUFFLING?  RICHARD SCHROEPPEL IS INTERESTED IN SOME
 THINGS ABOUT CARDS, SO I THOUGHT HE WOULD BE INTERESTED, BUT FOUND THAT
 I REMEMBERED ONLY THE BARE BONES.
 				THANKS,
 				WHIT
 
∂16-OCT-73  1058		FOO,DBA
 About Michel Sintzoff.  He knows a lot about programming languages
 but after  working on ALGOL68 is looking around for something else.
 I would enjoy talking to him a bit, and so might Tony Hoare.  If he
 is paying for himself then it seems reasonable value.  Why not get
 him to organize a manual for LISP70 so that people other than the
 implementors can find out about it and decide what needs changing
 before it is released?  We could certainly do with a good interactive
 programming language/system here at the lab - the ones we have are
 very much inferior to what can be done.
 
∂16-OCT-73  1003		ACT,REG
 THERE WAS A BUG IN LOGOUT WHEREBY FRACTIONS OF A SECOND WERE DISCARDED
 BEFORE HUNDREDTHS OF A MINUTE OF CPU TIME WAS CALCULATED.  THIS HAS BEEN FIXED.

∂16-OCT-73  0001		ESS,JMC (reminder)
 call chern
 
∂16-OCT-73  0001		ESS,JMC (reminder)
 delete minsky.req[ess,jmc]
 
∂17-OCT-73  1812		ACT,REG
 I have been in communication with RPH, and he offers the following:
 	What Stanford is going to get is:
 		A KL-10 processor
 			w/ I/O bus adapter
 			w/ Memory bus adapter
 			w/ Cache
 		No memory, internal or external will be provided.
 	RPH suggests that we should buy the internal memory for the
 KL-10, since DEC claims it will run 20% faster.
 
 Also, according to RPH, Fred Wilhelm says that we will NOT get to keep
 the PDP-6.  RPH says Wilhelm say to address question to Wilhelm, not
 to John Leng.

∂17-OCT-73  1708		1,KNM
 have an interesting and fun reunion.  see you monday--kasee
 
 
∂18-OCT-73  0100		APG,DCL
 Jean-Marie Cadiou would like to visit the Lab
 for a week Oct.29-Nov 4. He asks if the Lab can
 give him a"per diem" for that week. He has a talk
 entitled "Mechanizable Proofs about Parallel Processes"  
 which he is giving at the SWAT conference and volanteers
 to give here.
 What do you think?
 (I'm neutral to slightly negative)--david
 
∂18-OCT-73  2107		ACT,REG
 The reasons for getting the bbn pager are:
 1. Allows us to develop a display system suitable for a paging environment.
 2. Allows us to convert our system to paging
 3. Allows us to make modifications to tenex to increase its ability to
    handle heavy system loading.
 4. Eventually, to develop a sucessor to tenex which will be a more suitable
    system for the AI community.
 
 In addition to the pager, we will need some money to pay direct labor for the
 ka-10 mods and pager installation.
 
 (Also, could we buy a more winning ibm channel?)
 
∂28-OCT-73  1342		ACT,REG
 With help from Fred, I have prepared a summary of processor differences
 which may affect conversion to Tenex.  See KA.DIF[DOC,REG].
 I believe that you should consider retaining Fred to help effect the
 conversion to Tenex.

∂28-OCT-73  1247		network site ISI
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 Date: 28-OCT-73 1104-PST
 From: CROCKER at USC-ISI
 Re:   PAGER
 cc:   LES at SU-AI, CROCKER
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 WEEK 0 BEGINS 28 OCT 73.
 STEVE
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∂29-OCT-73  0503		network site AI
 
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 10/29/73  08:03:17
 From:  PHW@MIT-AI
 
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 HI JOHN
    1) GJS IS SUSSMAN, YOUR MAIL IS STILL WAITING FOR
       HIM TO LOGIN.
    2) THE USER LIST IS IN A FILE, NAMELY
       COM:USRNAM >
 
∂31-OCT-73  0424		GEM,BGB AT TTY21   0424
 Dear John,
 	Again this morning, the turn table is not working.
 I badly need to be able to take pictures of an object rotated
 in front of the television camera in a uniform way for the
 sake of my thesis research dealing with computer vision.
 I wish to formally request that Tom Gafford be assigned to
 design, build and interface a driver for the turn table motor
 and a means of input for the optical shaft encoder. I believe
 this new hardware is justified in view of the continuing failure
 of the existing hardware and is fully within the means of
 the project's budget.
 
 				Bruce G. B.
 
∂31-OCT-73  0000		ESS,JMC (reminder)
 send off feldst.rev