Encylopedia Pick, Third Edition

Publisher: Pick Systems (now Raining Data)

Contents: Preface; Update processor keyboard layout; Introduction; Data management; Terminal control language; Update processor; Output processor; Processing codes; PICK/BASIC; Body of EPICK; Index.

Comments from Jonathan E. Sisk:

Dick continued to defy publishing conventions, seeing to it that each subsequent edition of this book contained less information.

This one weighed in at 621 pages, having lost 820 pages - more than 60% - since the first edition.