For the lucky 10,000 today who don’t get the reference:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

ETA can also mean “edited to add” when you update your comment to add more to it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution

RIP Bill Hicks

My great uncle worked in cobol on a Ge225 for the us army and then several banks. To program they had to print them out on punch cards. Once you loaded the programs they then had to set up a completely different algorithm for each bank as it sent in data because nothing had been standardized and they each had their own system. Once you did set up the banks’ approved formulas in their module of code, this computer could do operations on the data coming in over a connection. These computers were already on a phone line to the banks way before Internet was a concept!

Here’s a fun manual from the successor called the GE 235. http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/ge.235.1964.102646091.pdf