computers are a completely normal field where there are still existing databases built on descendants of something called PICK OS, an early database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.
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Ha! I was working as a Student Aide for the Ventura County Waterworks in the mid 80's when a vendor tried to sell us a billing program written for PICK OS - and futzed around so long that I ended up writing one in-house in dBase IV that was used for many years past it's reasonable lifetime.
