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              The PICK Collection

              A unique Library of books and historical documents
              devoted to the External link opens in new tab or windowPick "MultiValue" D3 Database.

              PICK BASIC: A PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE

              Jonathan E. Sisk
              Publisher: Tab Books
              Publication date: 1987
              Binding: Hardcover
              Pagination: XVI, 300p.
              Edition 01
              Book category Adult Non-Fiction
              ISBN 0830628452
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              Original list price $36.95
              Notes from Jonathan E. Sisk:
              This was the first textbook devoted entirely to the PICK/BASIC language. It provided a step-by-step approach to learning the language, and covered nearly every instruction in the many programs included in the book. It was modeled after the popular JES course on Pick/BASIC Programming.
              Contents:
              Pick terminology and concepts; The related TCL processes; Fundamental PICK/BASIC statements and instructions; The concept of loops; Calculation and the principle of precedence; String-handling intrinsic functions; Data conversion and print masking; Numeric data conversion and output routing; The CASE statement and controlling switches; Looping with the FOR-NEXT statement; Extending the FOR-NEXT construct; An introduction to file I/O; Manipulating dynamic arrays; A generalized data entry program; Formatting reports and passing PROC arguments; Using the EXECUTE statement; External subroutines; Additional PICK/BASIC concepts; Appendices; Glossary; Review quiz answers; Index.


              EXPLORING THE PICK OPERATING SYSTEM, 1ST EDITION

              Jonathan E. Sisk and Steve VanArsdale
              Publisher: Hayden Book Co.
              Published: 1985
              ISBN: 9780810462861
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              Summary:
              Covers PICK Operating System, PICK/BASIC, ACCESS (Data Base Manager), the EDITOR, PROC (Stored Procedure Language), and TCL (Terminal Control Language)
              Notes:
              Includes index.
              Classification: Dewey Class: 5.43 -- Computer programming, programs, data
              LCC Number: QA76.76
              Book Details: Language: eng Physical Description: 238 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:
              We connected with Hayden thanks to them running the company on a Pick System, and naturally, loved it.
              Hayden commissioned us to write the first definitive textbook on Pick, which appeared on retail shelves shortly later in hard-cover format. The book itself was modeled after the "Pick Fundamentals" course that JES offered at the time, and remained the only title on Pick available in retail outlets for the next several years.

              EXPLORING THE PICK OPERATING SYSTEM, 2ND EDITION
              Jonathan E. Sisk and Steve VanArsdale

              Publisher: Hayden Book Co., Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.  1989.

              ISBN: External link opens in new tab or window0-672-48412-9

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              Summary:

              Covers PICK Operating System, PICK/BASIC, ACCESS (Data Base Manager), the EDITOR, PROC (Stored Procedure Language), and TCL (Terminal Control Language)

              Contents:

              An introduction to the PICK system; Getting around in the PICK world; The user processes: TCL; The EDITOR: the window into the processes; ACCESS: the data retrieval process; PROC: the stored procedure language; PICK/BASIC: the programming language; Controlling peripherals; The logical computer; Putting the parts together: applications; Analysis and design for PICK-based systems; The future of the PICK system; Appendixes; Index.

              Notes:

              On t.p. the registered trademark symbol "TM" is superscript following "PICK" in the title.

              Includes index.

              Classification: Dewey Class: 5.43 -- Computer programming, programs, data

              LCC Number: QA76.76

              Book Details: Language: eng Physical Description: 342p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

              Pagination: xxi, 342p.

              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

              This was not just a new edition, but really a much-improved new book, with much more information on all topics. It still has the useful summary and comments on implementations and the very clear treatment of correlatives and conversions.

              The second edition of this book was packaged in a paperback, perfect-bound format. The content was revised to reflect changes that had taken place in the code since the first edition, plus, it gave us the chance to tighten up the loose parts.

              THE PICK POCKET GUIDE 5TH EDITION, DESK REFERENCE

              Jonathan E. Sisk
              ISBN 0-8306-3245-X
              Publisher: JES Publishing Co. for Pick Systems
              Published: 1982
              Price: $50
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              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:
              In early 1982, Dick Pick saw a copy of the Reality Pocket Guide I had written and published the previous year.
              He tasked Ken All, their PR guy at the time to contact me to see if I would produce a custom version for Pick & Associates.
              I estimated that it would take about six weeks to produce, since I only had to search and replace certain bits. But that was before I met the legendary "External link opens in new tab or windowHarry Emerson", widely considered to be the principal architect of the system.
              Harry had a keen interest in ensuring the written word describing his efforts was accurate.
              He became my personal mentor on the depths and intricacies of the Pick System in a friendship still going strong in 2023.
              My six week estimate turned into six months of rewrites, long discussions with Harry who also wrote, among other things, the Print Spooler
              I was lucky to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with the real heavyweights of the Pick industry at the height of their powers and the products' popularity.
              This edition was produced in a 5 by 7 inch loose-leaf binder, which we called the "hard cover" version. Each copy in the first edition had a serial number, which precipitated the first real application at Pick & Associates, to track the sales and owners of the copies. The database we began at that time became the basis of the now-legendary "entity" file that Dick Pick obsessed on for the remaining years of his life.
              It might be of interest that it was during the writing of this book, we came up with the name "ACCESS" for the retrieval language and "Pick/BASIC" for the programming language. Up to that point, Pick had called them  "English" and "DATA/BASIC" as they were in the original REALITY implementation.
              It also precipitated another change at Pick, resulting in the renaming of the company from Pick and Associates to Pick Systems.
              This book spawned a cottage industry for me. It went through a half-dozen editions, and about a half-dozen of the early Pick Licensees wanted custom versions for their implementations, which I also wrote.

              EPICK ENCYCLOPEDIA PICK, 1ST EDITION

              Jonathan E. Sisk

              Publisher: JES Publishing for Pick Systems

              Published: 1992

              Price: $50

              Pagination: 1432pp

              Download   External link opens in new tab or windowEPICK Encyclopedia PICK 1st edition

              Current  External link opens in new tab or windowD3 Online Reference Manual

              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

              In this first edition, every topic was in alphabetical order, like an encyclopedia. There was a very good reason for this: Dick Pick wanted it that way.

              When Dick commissioned me to write this, I knew it would be unpopular in this presentation format. That's why I built  EPick, an (Pick) documentation database out of each discrete topic (2345 discrete topics, to be exact), which could then be sorted in any order for future editions.

              This edition was by far the most comprehensive. In subsequent editions, much of the contents of the first edition was systematically removed, including such things as examples, "see also's", compatibility indexes and virtually all of the "white space". This resulted in a much more compact print format at the expense of containing less information.

              EPICK ENCYCLOPEDIA PICK, 2ND EDITION
              Jonathan E. Sisk

              Publisher: JES Publishing for Pick Systems

              Published: 1993

              Price: $19.95

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              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

              In this edition, Dick Pick took a much more proactive role, resulting in a reduction in page count by nearly half (from 1440 to 746 pages).

              This reduction was in part facilitated by reducing the point size by half to 6-point font, making it two columns (like a real encyclopedia), and removing a bunch of "unnecessary" stuff, like examples and cross-references to related subjects, plus, all that pesky "white space".

              PICK FOR PROFESSIONALS: ADVANCED METHODS & TECHNIQUES

              Author: Harvey Rodstein

              Editor: Jonathan E. Sisk, The Pick Library

              Publisher: Tab Books (McGraw-Hill)

              ISBN: 0830601252

              Summary: This book is the first to address the needs of the experienced applications programmer.

              Topics include database organization, quick data query, process control without PROC, ACCESS correlatives, functional integration, system performance, and more.

              Book Details:

              Physical Description: 354 pages

              Edition Info: Hardcover; 1990-02

              Price: $29.95

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              Notes:

              Pagination: xiv, 354p. Contents: The Pick database; File management; A closer look at PICK/BASIC; List processing; Process control; Access programming; Dictionary driven data entry; The virtual machine; Working in the virtual environment; Index.

              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

              This was the first book for long-time Pick Guru Harvey Rodstein. Written for experienced programmers, topics include database organization, quick data query, process control without PROC, ACCESS correlatives, functional integration, system performance, role of fourth generation languages, and more.

              The PICK Perspective

              Author: Ian Jeffrey Sandler

              Editor: Jonathan E. Sisk, The Pick Library

              Publisher:Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Tab Books, 1989.

              ISBN: External link opens in new tab or window0830631232

              Dewey Class: 5.43 -- Computer programming, programs, data

              LCC Number: QA76.76

              Book Details:

              Language: eng

              Physical Description: xiv, 290 p. ; 25 cm.

              Edition Info: $29.95

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              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

              Ian Sandler was one of the top experts working in Pick at the time he wrote The Pick Perspective.

              This book contains a vast collection of the knowledge, tips and techniques he acquired over his 25+ years of experience in the Pick marketplace.

              This was the first book available that explained in simple terms exactly what Pick is, why it is that way, and how to use it to produce successful, large-scale commercial applications.

              PROGRAMMING WITH IBM PC BASIC AND THE PICK DATABASE SYSTEM
              Author: David L. Clark

              Editor: Jonathan E. Sisk, The Pick Library

              Publisher: Tab Books (McGraw-Hill)

              ISBN: 0830633227

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              Book Details:

              Language: eng

              Physical Description: xii, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

              Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

              A programmer's guide comparing instructions between PICK/BASIC and Microsoft BASIC, with emphasis on converting application programs.

              PICK HITS 1988

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              PICK RESOURCES GUIDE INTERNATIONAL 3RD EDITION

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              PICK RESOURCES GUIDE 1986

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              PICK SYSTEMS R83 USER REFERENCE MANUAL, VOLUME 1

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              PICK SYSTEMS R83 USER REFERENCE MANUAL, VOLUME 2

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              PICK SYSTEMS D3 REFERENCE MANUAL 1997 (“EPICK 1997”)
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              PICK SYSTEMS R83 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL VERSION 3.1

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              PICK MASTER DICTIONARY 

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              PICK FOR HUMANS

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              PICK - YOUR SYSTEM

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              PICK ACCESS GUIDE

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              PICK BASIC - A REFERENCE GUIDE

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              PICK FOR USERS

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              THE PICK OPERATING SYSTEM

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              THE PICK OPERATING SYSTEM - A PRACTICAL GUIDE

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              THIS IS ADVANCED PICK

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              UN SECRET ... PUBLIC PICK (EN FRANCAIS)

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              WORKING WITH PICK

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              A GUIDE TO THE PICK SYSTEM

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              ADVANCED PICK & UNIX

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              HOW TO - ACCESS

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              HOW TO - THE EDITOR

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              MICROPROCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEMS VOLUME III

              Editor: John Zarella
              Published: 1984
              Contributing Authors: Jonathan E. Sisk, Kenneth O. All, William Walsh
              Chapter 5 of this book was devoted to the PICK Operating System
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              68000 AND THE PICK OPERATING SYSTEM

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              GENERALIZED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL LANGUAGE AND SYSTEM (GIRLS) USER REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION

              External link opens in new tab or windowDownload Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System (GIRLS) User Requirements Specification - Donald B Nelson - March 19 1965

              GIM-1 A GENERALIZED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - NELSON, PICK, ANDREWS (TRW SYSTEMS) 

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              GIM-II DATA BASE AND RECORD STRUCTURES TRW

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              GIM-II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - DECEMBER 1974 (ORIGINAL)

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              GIM-II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - DECEMBER 1974

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              GIM-II MIT

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              GIM-II TRW

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              GIM-II TRW EVALUATING DBMS - MIT THESIS

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              FBI OVERSIGHT AND AUTHORIZATION REQUEST W/GIMS-II SECTION 1989

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              IGIM-GENERAL-INFORMATION-MANUAL 2019

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              THE POET, THE PHYSICIST, AND THE IMMIGRANT - BIRTH OF A DATABASE - BY CHANDRU MURTHI

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              RESOURCE CATALOG

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              R83 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE, 3RD EDITION

              External link opens in new tab or windowDownload R83 Assembly Language, 3rd ed 1990

              MICRODATA REALITY (10)
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              External link opens in new tab or windowDownload Microdata REALITY Assembler manual, Rainbow 1975
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              External link opens in new tab or windowDownload Microdata REALITY Assembly Language Instruction Set Review copy of 7.0 1988
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              HISTORY OF MICRODATA AND PICK BY MAX MALONE

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              SECRETS OF PEAK PERFORMERS

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              EVOLUTION REFERENCE MANUAL, VOLUME ONE

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              PICK SYSTEM ARCHIVE ON BITSAVERS

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              MICRODATA REALITY ARCHIVE ON BITSAVERS

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              DCT DATA BASIC PROCESSING TECHNIQUES - LECTURE HANDOUTS

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              DCT DATA BASIC PROCESSING TECHNIQUES - LECTURE NOTES

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              SPEECH ON OPEN ARCHITECTURE BY DENNIS GALLAGHER, PARIS 1987

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              SMA STANDARDS 
              TL/DR: ”The Pick Pocket Guide is the definition of Pick. Now let's order lunch!”.

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              MB GUIDES (14)

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