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SYSTEM MEETING							2 August 1979
			      EQUIPMENT

11/45:		Mostek 65k memory installed & working.  Zonker disconnected.
		Plessey disk ready to go - ROB.
		Memory map is wrong type -- will be replaced - TOB.

DCA scanner:	New chips to be installed - ROB
		Return the old ones to DCA COD - LES.
		Some ports go into limbo occasionally - ME.

Ampex Discs:	Drive F still broken.  Replacement parts arrived broken;
		new cards quoted for 60 day delivery - ROB.

9-track tapes:	We should take another look at 6250 bpi drives.

7-track tapes:	Controller occasionally fails to report rewind completion - ME.

KL10:		Revision 10 should be added to CPU to fix certain overflow/
		interrupt problems.  Costs something like $50 if we do it. - RPG.

Datamedias:	New ones overdue still.  Product Associates has foolishly
		decided to build their own modems -- prdictably, they don't work.
		Also, they still haven't finished the programming for our keyboard
		- ROB.
		It is apparently feasible to retrofit meta keys on old DMs.
		JAM knows how.

Foonly C1:	Still waiting for DWP to replace power supply - ROB.

KBD serializer:	Parts ordered except for PC cards; 2 weeks till PCs go out - ROB.

TI 990 computer: Possibly connect to KL10 via 9600 baud path through DCA scanner.
		Two more processors & megabyte memory due in Sept. - TOB.

Dover:		Still due Sept.-Oct.  Comes with 16-18 Altos & file server.

Ethernet:	When for KL10 & TI990?  How? - ROB.

GE cameras:	Due end of August - TOB.

Grinnell graphics system:  Order due soon - TOB.

				PROGRAMS

WAITS:		July availability 94%.  REAP command up.
		For a discussion of how to talk to WAITS from displays without
		bucky or edit keys, read NOEDIT.BH[UP,DOC].
		For a discussion of proposed entensions to display service,
		read DPYSER.TXT[1,ME] - ME.

Varian:		Video mode up and running - ME.

XGP:		To permit use of TEX fonts (which foolishly put graphic characters
		under "space" - character '40), it is proposed that XGP service
		be changed so that when "space" is seen, it normally prints a space
		of the given width.  The given graphic character (if any) would
		be printed by the sequesnce "'177 '40".

E:		Discussion of hidden directories ended inconclusively, as usual.


			    DOCUMENTATION

Find-a-font:	New edition still being prepared - PAT & LES.

				MOVE

Computer room:	Preliminary plan of Jacks Hall computer room done - ROY.

Cost center:	Beginning 1 Sept., SAIL computer facility will become a cost
		center, with various projects buying a pie-slice.  One effect
		of this will be that all users must be affiliated with a sponsored
		project or with an overhead activity (system programming or
		hardware) - LES.

				PARTY

End of the World:  Suggest that there be another end-of-the-world party shortly
		before power-down for the move - BIS.