I would like to acquire or at least see a Pick Hits book from around
1990 or so. Does anyone have one they could part with? You can contact
me offlist at dwolt at tincat-group.com Thanks. --dawn

On 03/04/2011 06:17 PM, dawn wrote:
The answer here is probably not. But I will take a look this weekend.
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On Mar 4, 6:17*pm, dawn <dawnwolth... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Dawn have you seen this?
http://knol.google.com/k/fft2001/pic...basj7lzroyk/23

If you just want something looked up, I'd be willing to do that for
free.
Co-author an article on some aspect of Pick history with me and I
might be willing to do more.

W

On Mar 5, 8:10*am, wjhonson <wjhon... (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:
Thanks Will. I might take you up on that.

Last year I commissioned a recently graduated college student, headed
to grad school next fall, to do some creative writing (in the form of
a screenplay, just for fun) re the history of Pick and Multivalue
databases, given that Sisk said he will definitely not be writing up
the history (I had suggest many times that he should). Please note
that I never met Dick Pick. I started working with PI in 1988, so
rather recently in the fold. I am working to steer the writing effort
to some extent and will surely make changes to the first draft (so far
scheduled for completion in August of this year). At this point I'm
trying to give him some resources so that what he writes is not
entirely fictional ;-) The writer is perhaps better at imagination
than fact-checking, which will then be one of my tasks, although I
will permit some amount of freedom to him too and will not insist that
he be an historian or do research. Showing him a big list of current
and former companies using MV would be one of those "clues" to give
him. He is more into writing than reading, so it is the totality of it
that I was thinking would make an impression. So to some extent, I'm
more interested in having the document in hand than in looking
anything up in it right now. Make sense? --dawn
P.S. If anyone has any stories from the history of any of the MV
companies that you think definitely should make it into a screenplay,
please pass along the story either here or by email. Thanks!

> W

The Pick market is full of personalities. PickWiki.com was started by
Ian McGowan to be a repository of information on just that specific
topic. But at the encouragement of Rex Gozar, myself, and others, the
scope vastly increased. That's a good place to find and post stories
and information about the bright history of people and companies.
It's good, compared to more controlled documents, because it allows
everyone with something to contribute to add to and correct what has
been posted by others. It's a seriously under-used resource.

As to Pick Hits, I know for a fact that there are copies floating
around the TigerLogic office, though I'm sure many people have tossed
copies over the years as being relics. I don't think there's a
digital version of the document on any old tape or disk drive, but
man, _that_ would be a treasure to find. One person's trash is
another's view into history, eh? I probably have a copy in my garage
somewhere. One of these days I or someone might find that and a
number of other treasures out there. As with coding, I'll be happy to
go through my garage if someone will pay me. LOL

Good luck,
T

On Mar 5, 4:17*pm, Tony Gravagno <tony_grava... (AT) nospam (DOT) invalid> wrote:
Yes, agreed that it would be good to collect some of those stories in
a wiki such as pickwiki. I had not seen a knol before I saw what Will
was doing, but that looks like a nice resource too. I was hoping the
binary star wiki written with OpenQM would be another good place to
capture such stories from the community. However, it seems that there
are better stories on CDP and the U2 lists (and perhaps also on the
jbase and revelation lists and perhaps others that I do not read
regularly or ever if they are closed lists).

OK, Tony, go for it -- I have a 20 sitting right here. smiles. --dawn

I just remembered this, although it probably isn't play-worthy. A friend of
mine has a picture of him and Dick Pick on a pier in Laguna Beach I think.
There are slips off the pier, designated with letters, one for each slip, in
alphabetical order.

You can cleary see three of the slips and their lettering in this picture: G
F E.

Ed

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

On Mar 5, 8:10 am, wjhonson <wjhon... (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:
Thanks Will. I might take you up on that.

Last year I commissioned a recently graduated college student, headed
to grad school next fall, to do some creative writing (in the form of
a screenplay, just for fun) re the history of Pick and Multivalue
databases, given that Sisk said he will definitely not be writing up
the history (I had suggest many times that he should). Please note
that I never met Dick Pick. I started working with PI in 1988, so
rather recently in the fold. I am working to steer the writing effort
to some extent and will surely make changes to the first draft (so far
scheduled for completion in August of this year). At this point I'm
trying to give him some resources so that what he writes is not
entirely fictional ;-) The writer is perhaps better at imagination
than fact-checking, which will then be one of my tasks, although I
will permit some amount of freedom to him too and will not insist that
he be an historian or do research. Showing him a big list of current
and former companies using MV would be one of those "clues" to give
him. He is more into writing than reading, so it is the totality of it
that I was thinking would make an impression. So to some extent, I'm
more interested in having the document in hand than in looking
anything up in it right now. Make sense? --dawn
P.S. If anyone has any stories from the history of any of the MV
companies that you think definitely should make it into a screenplay,
please pass along the story either here or by email. Thanks!

> W

On 03/06/2011 03:00 PM, Ed Sheehan wrote:
Marvelous! (applause)
--
Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man
Systems Theory project website: http://systemstheory.net
find us on MySpace, GarageBand, Reverb Nation, Last FM, CDBaby
free MP3s of Systems Theory, Mike Dickson & Greg Amov music at
http://mikedickson.org.uk

Dawn,

I have one that has a copyright of 1988, but I am not willing to part with it. If you come to Spectrum this year, I will let you look at it.

Rick

On Mar 6, 5:00*pm, "Ed Sheehan" <NOedsS... (AT) xmission (DOT) com> wrote:
Hi Ed -- if you can pass me either your friend's name and email addr
or else email me the photo at dwolt at tincat-group.com that would be
great. I have a lot of research to do and anything can help, pictures
would be appreciated.