SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

PICK Targets Soviets: PICK Systems, an Irvine company that developed for business computers and licenses a widely used computer operating system known as PICK, is targeting the Soviet Union as a new overseas market.

Hoping to take advantage of a relaxation of trade restrictions approved by the United States earlier this year, PICK Systems will entertain three Soviet officials from Moscow’s Institute for Technical Innovations on Sept. 18, the company said.

Vyatcheslav Alexander Filippov, a director of the institute and supervisor of a PICK-based computer laboratory, said sales of minicomputer systems based on the PICK operating system range from $9 million to $11 million in the Soviet Union now. Most of the systems are installed at Soviet government agencies.