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From: martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Anyone in the PICK world listening?
Keywords: pick Ultix Universe
Message-ID: <762@adpplz.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 91 18:28:01 GMT
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In <bsms.675021447@hippo> bsms@hippo.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury) writes:

>We are long-time users of various flavours of PICK and still as
>enchanted by the simplicity of it as we were many years ago.
                  ^^^^^^^^^^ (my emphasis)
>I'd love to hear from other Pick users out there.  Perhaps even
>consider a new group at some stage if there is interest ?

Pick discussion groups fail more often than restaurants, because there
isn't anything to _say_. Anybody with the computer skills of a turnip
can use the system to nearly its full potential. Other groups work 
because lots of people have lots of confusion and the experts get the
pride and satisfaction of being helpful.

I once had a winetasting party, and used an ADP proprietary Reality
system (Micro 1000, nobody's ever heard of it) for scoring. By the
middle of the party, the _non_ computer people were fully trained,
and running their own queries and printing reports, the _computer_ 
people were whining about the lack of menus. Way too DAMNED easy. 


Martin Golding    | sync, sync, sync, sank ... sunk:
Dod #0236         |  He who steals my code steals trash.
A poor old decrepit Pick programmer. Sympathize at:
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