Boring part
- Treasurer's report: Finances reset, no outstanding balance
- Authorized Signer Training: ezh and jocelynh
- Purchasing
- Approved:
- New rack: ~$310 (Gift)
- 104 (0.1 uF) capacitors for Soundblaster (Retro Repair)
- Deferred:
- Dolly for B6: Need to have something specific in mind
- Approved:
- Activities Fair — Wed 7 Sep, 16:30–18:30
- We're approved for a 6' table for ourselves
- ezh and fseidel will staff
- Recruitment night
- Short introduction by fseidel + a short demo talk by kbare
- mention hosting, can pay us back by helping maintain infrastructure--"no such thing as a free lunch, but here's pizza"
- Doing booths after that:
- Retro: fseidel, lroop
- Ops: kbare, grantwu(?)
- Talks: scunning, jocelynh
- Text Adv. (have it running): bescott, jocelynh
- Pizza during that: either 60 people estimated or n/4 estimation based on Activities Fair signups (order more as needed)
- First round to arrive no later than 17:05
- More to arrive at 18:00
- Short introduction by fseidel + a short demo talk by kbare
- Still on Wednesdays
- May alternate with Pizza with the Prof/Grad Students (tentative name), need to ask professors
- Perhaps ask Scott Fahlman, Franz Franchetti, Manuela Veloso, Seth Goldstein, ??
- ezh will do prodding if necessary
- Retrocomputing Committee report
Fill out Demosplash when2meet
- Last Saturday
- areese bought a Phillips CDI, but it has a dead CD drive. He has ordered another one.
- We tried putting the soundblaster in the IBM PC 5150, but a capacitor burned up when it was powered on.
- Citadel/HP machines
- Met with Computing Services on Monday
- We got two machines to test; they work
- Got a box of hard disks
- Drive warranty replacement
- With de0u's help, we got a replacement in July
- It was lent to AB via egarbade, tparenti will try to get it back
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- Events
- Operations