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No Pick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system My first actual job was working for a local h
by simonh 5mo ago
No Pick?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
My first actual job was working for a local health authority here in the UK, and they had a Pick computer running some database application thing, I think to do with accounting. I had to run the backups. Sorry to be a whinger, I don't mean to belittle the monumental amount of work.
- CalRobert 5mo agoWhat a legendary name for the developer.
- smnplk 5mo agoOmg, I am dead. Dick Pick. That is the best name, not just for a developer :D
- dotancohen 5mo agoJust a few weeks ago I met a guy with the same first name, but his last name was Head. No joke. I spared him the jokes.
- dnnddidiej 5mo agoBet he wishes his surname was Bastard. Rich Bastard.
- dotancohen 5mo agoThat's great! He is a friend of a friend of my mother, I'll suggest that she call him that!
- bkummel 5mo agoDick is a normal, be it old-fashioned, first name in The Netherlands.
- dotancohen 5mo agoSure, but Dick Head is far more commonly expressed as an expletive than as a name.
- nullsanity 5mo ago[dead]
- patja 5mo agoSimilar experience here. I worked on an ERP system for a chemical distributor that ran on 5 Honeywell Ultimate systems distributed across the US. General ledger, order management, warehouse order pick lists, chemical recipes, MSDS data, inventory, etc. We synced database updates every night, and once a month someone had to spend the night in the datacenter swapping 9 track tapes for backups. I loved working in Pick BASIC on those systems. So much you could do with "dict items"
- HeyLaughingBoy 5mo agoHa. My first SW job interview was for a programmer on a Pick system at some small company in Manhattan. I think they were involved in publishing or something. Anyway, the salary they offered was so pitifully low all I could do was politely decline. Was too young to even know that I could negotiate.
- andreww591 5mo agoI've got Pick PC R83 V3.1 included. The screenshots on the front page are a very small sampling of what's there.
- simonh 5mo agoCool. I couldn’t find a way to search the site.
- rcakebread 5mo agoI wrote software for Robinson Helicopter using Pick up till the early 2000s. They used it for the production, manufacting and inventory control. It was based on a system called PRO:MAN.
- teh_klev 5mo agoWhen I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.