I wrote my first code in 1965, at Purdue in a Fortran IV class for
Electrical Engineering. The Hardware was an IBM 7094. My intro to Pick
was aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in 1975. Microdata, 8-user system. Hmmm,
32 years in Pick. Time flies... - Steve

Steve Alexander wrote:
Microdata was doing on an aircraft carrier?
Art

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:21:40 -0500, art <artmartz (AT) triad (DOT) rr.com> wrote:

Anchor?

On Feb 21, 12:21 pm, art <artma... (AT) triad (DOT) rr.com> wrote:
DIdn't Pick start off tracking helo parts ?

As some would say, rtfa:

"That system was called Outlaw Hawk. It was aboard the Kitty Hawk. It ran on
a
Microdata machine, hooked up to 8 dumb terminals and a giant display screen
in
the War Room for the Admiral to see during ops"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....d2bfb2d8f54910

Would it have been great or what to claim that naval ops were Pick-based!

Chandru
"Bruce Nichol" <reverse_ecurb (AT) taloncs (DOT) com.au> wrote

Steve Alexander wrote:
Thanks, Steve. You've made me feel young, which is no easy trick.

I wrote my first code in 1975 at the University of NSW, Sydney. Fortran
on a PDP-11, using marked-sense cards. Nothing to write home about.

My first Pick code was in 1981 when I joined AWA in a software support
role. But I don't really do much MV coding these days. Just a bit here
and there. More Java and C#.

Luke

I started in 1974 on a Wang 2020 system programming in basic via punch
tape. In 1978 I got a job with MSL/DCT (Ted Saberese) on the old
Microdata with removable 10mb data disks for backup.

Richard Kann
Comp-Ware Systems, Inc.

Luke Webber wrote:

If helo=helicopter, yup, the Cheyenne at TRW, Redondo Beach, where Don
Nelson designed the entire Pick virtual machine, including the paging
system, without writing a line of code (he coudn't, being an English major).
GIRLS and its update equivalent were the result. Pick was the coder in
charge, and the rest is, uh, history.

Chandru
"Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote

My first code was in PL/C, in 1973, at Oklahoma State University... it
was a great first exposure to programming at that time (ran on an IBM
mainframe, accessed
via 12 baud IBM Selectric "terminals"), much better than what I had to
do later on, waiting in line to put in my punched cards for Fortran
IV.
I wasn't exposed to the MultiValue/Pick world until 2003, when I
started the work the MultiValue extensions to Caché, after 17 years
spent implementing what is
now Caché for InterSystems.

At 12 baud, you'd have to have the patience of a saint to do anything! Was
it 1200?

Actually the Selectric terminals were, if nothing else, entertaining as the
head bobbed and rotated, you cold fixate on that while waiting for the
printout...

Chandru

"Gandalf" <scott (AT) intersys (DOT) com> wrote

My first code was in PL/C, in 1973, at Oklahoma State University... it
was a great first exposure to programming at that time (ran on an IBM
mainframe, accessed
via 12 baud IBM Selectric "terminals"), much better than what I had to
do later on, waiting in line to put in my punched cards for Fortran
IV.
I wasn't exposed to the MultiValue/Pick world until 2003, when I
started the work the MultiValue extensions to Caché, after 17 years
spent implementing what is
now Caché for InterSystems.