Subject: UCC Committee Meeting Minutes
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:13:00 +0800
X-Venue: loft@cameron-hall.gu.uwa.edu.au
X-Present: [JEB] (James Bromberger - Pres.), David Luyer - Vice
	President [DGC] (David Chinnery - Treas.), [DUC] (Duncan
	Sargeant - OCM), [NTU] (Nick Bannon - Sec.), [SAF] (Simon
	Fryer - HWO), [K?Y] (Kym Yeap - Fresher Rep.), [BBB]
	(Barnaby Brown - OCM), [MTL] (Mark Tearle), [YAK] (Ian
	McKellar).
X-Apologies: [SD:] (Sophie Divliaev - OCM)

President's report: Bing.
  Shenton Park was interesting. A fair bit of the stuff that's not
  on the shelves could stand donation to good homes. We did a minor
  cleanup and extracted two racks - which we haven't been paid for,
  yet.

Treasurer's report: $2479.93

Machine reports:
  mackerel: Running. Has dead serial ports, still.
    With new cables, we could move /home/ucc over to it for an NFS
    performance boost.

  marlin: Slow. Could fiddle with its RAM...

  starfish: The libraries file off the CD seems to be a tar file.
    Actually trying to boot off the CD fails - 'twould require a drive
    which could understand different block sizes.

  Satan's Little Helper: Needs more memory.

Purchases: Sent off cheques for the mackerel upgrade and the Sun SCSI
  cables by certified mail.

VAXstations: Some developments during week. Four were headed for WA -
  including one for David Basden (who paid one $250 deposit), one for
  [TDH] (David Manchester - HWO, who shared a $250 deposit with [NTU]).
  The other buyer pulled out, so [NTU] paid for a third deposit, and
  after some positive posts on the list, the UCC paid for one more.

  [COM] (Comrade) and [ECF] (John West) expressed interest in them for
  personal use, so [NTU] sold his deposit to Comrade, and John got $500
  to pay for the club's deposit, and the extra $250 to be paid to the
  seller on arrival.

  Upshot: All four are going to club members, UCC itself isn't getting
  one for the clubroom.

New PC: 6 slot MB sounds good. Prices of 72 pin non-EDO SIMMs have
  plummeted recently.
  Do we get a whole machine? or in parts to put together?
  Specs: Rhino 9 MB - Triton II, 6 SIMM slots, with 512K PLB cache
	 1x2GB Seagate (not Maxtor) EIDE drive
	 Intel P133, P166 or a Cyrix 6x86 P166+ chip
	 2x32 MB or 4x16MB SIMMs
	 No keyboard, monitor or mouse
	 Cheapest possible video card
	 Desktop case or possibly a full tower, with a big PSU.
  Investigate CPU price differences.
  A 256K VGA video card would be great. However - if we buy it new, we
  may end up with a 1MB S3, or so.

UCC-Announce: All users are on the mailing list.

Computer museums that just might be interested in our equipment:
  Powerhouse Museum.
  Canberra: National Science & Technology Centre.

Shenton Park: We have an Altair in there - about the first mass
  produced PC, based on the 8008.

Mudding/Terminal usage: International outgoing mudding is contrary to
  the PARNet/AARNet guidelines.

  Technical restrictions (eg time limits on MUD telnet sessions) are
  unlikely to help - people could use other machines, for example.

  [K?Y] is indifferent. :)

  A list of priorities is on the wall:
	Top	Programming
	 .	Email
	 .	News/WWW
	Bottom	Games playing and chatting (including MUDs, IRC,
		Nethack...)
  Dumb text terminals are to be used first - leaving X-terms and Beige
  free.

  Conversation fragments and dissolves into whirling chaos...

Meeting closed: 2:00pm