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A client i work for used a Pick system and it's maintained by one dude. He's in his 60s, so who knows how long they'll be able to get support... [0]: https://e

by berbec 11mo ago

A client i work for used a Pick system and it's maintained by one dude. He's in his 60s, so who knows how long they'll be able to get support... [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

IshKebab 11mo ago
> It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick Wikipedia vandals these days...
- sverhagen 11mo ago
  There's a completely unironic obituary linked from the LA Times from 1994, which makes me wonder if the scandalous meaning even existed yet in those days?
  - IshKebab 11mo ago
    Well it started with smartphones, so no.
- urnicus 11mo ago
  Hahahahahaha - the kids are alright
- xmcp123 11mo ago
  Dick Pick, initially released on GIRLS. Wow
trbleclef 11mo ago
My dad recently retired but his company was still using Pick as of a year or two ago. They also had a one-dude maintenance plan. I wonder if it was the same dude.
- stephenhuey 11mo ago
  My first job out of college was over 2 decades ago, and I was hired to work on a web app which was considered new technology. But an important application there that was used by hundreds of people around the country was written with Pick, and the owner of the company also had some local Houston businesses whose Pick applications he occasionally did maintenance work on. The owner had moved from Chicago to Houston at the beginning of the 80s because he was able to get a high-paying job with no degree, but when the oil bust happened he learned Pick programming from an older guy and did so well when he started his own business that he retired early.
- nivethan 11mo ago
  So many of these systems were one man shops. It really speaks to how easy to develop pick systems was. It still very much is.
matthewpick 11mo ago
I should become a maintainer to keep the legacy going…
nivethan 11mo ago
I work on a bunch of Pick systems :) Love it all and we're still doing active development. (Feel free to send me an e-mail, we pick up orphaned systems) If anyone wants to take a look, here are some links: Open source version: https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME The last version of true pick: https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83 https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83

by berbec 11mo ago

IshKebab 11mo ago

> It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick Wikipedia vandals these days...

sverhagen 11mo ago
There's a completely unironic obituary linked from the LA Times from 1994, which makes me wonder if the scandalous meaning even existed yet in those days?
- IshKebab 11mo ago
  Well it started with smartphones, so no.
urnicus 11mo ago
Hahahahahaha - the kids are alright
xmcp123 11mo ago
Dick Pick, initially released on GIRLS. Wow

trbleclef 11mo ago

My dad recently retired but his company was still using Pick as of a year or two ago. They also had a one-dude maintenance plan. I wonder if it was the same dude.

stephenhuey 11mo ago
My first job out of college was over 2 decades ago, and I was hired to work on a web app which was considered new technology. But an important application there that was used by hundreds of people around the country was written with Pick, and the owner of the company also had some local Houston businesses whose Pick applications he occasionally did maintenance work on. The owner had moved from Chicago to Houston at the beginning of the 80s because he was able to get a high-paying job with no degree, but when the oil bust happened he learned Pick programming from an older guy and did so well when he started his own business that he retired early.
nivethan 11mo ago
So many of these systems were one man shops. It really speaks to how easy to develop pick systems was. It still very much is.

matthewpick 11mo ago

I should become a maintainer to keep the legacy going…

nivethan 11mo ago

I work on a bunch of Pick systems :) Love it all and we're still doing active development. (Feel free to send me an e-mail, we pick up orphaned systems) If anyone wants to take a look, here are some links: Open source version: https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME The last version of true pick: https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83 https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83