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RE: Your history of the "PICK" operating system: on your page = "Pick was subsequently commercially released in 1973" // Go back to the 1972 based McDonald Douglas manuals and you will see the acknowledgment that "PICK" was released for civilian use on December 31, 1968. That date was set as day zero for the operating system with January 1, 1969 being internal operating system date being day 1 and all dates after that being a sequential count up or back. (That is why any "stand alone" implementation of the "PICK" operating system was year 2000 compliant and did not have to have any modifications/upgrades during the time period of anxiety during the 1990s.) // In 1973 I was working for Sunbeam Corporation in one of their lawnmower manufacturing plants in Verona, Mississippi. We changed from IBM to the Microdata Reality system in August of that year and purchased a MRP and inventory control system called "ILS" (it was thought that the initials were originally for "Interactive Logistics Systems" but could not be sure because the original company owners had left). That package had been in production and use since 1969. We purchased the 1971 version. According to the manuals, that came with the operating system, at the time of release for civilian use, the integrated word processing, spreadsheet, and communication packages (as well as the training/entertainment game set) were part of the initial 1968 release and the word processing package was used to produce and print all manuals.