個人電腦（personal computer；PC）

閱讀筆記：

• 1980年代初個人電腦普遍使用。（資料來源：《面對失靈的年代：克魯曼談金融海嘯》(The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008)）
  
  
• 想像終有一天，電腦會小到和便宜到一般家庭可以買一台在家裡使用並不過分。但為什麼有人要那種電腦呢？六○年代末運算業的主流人士想了很久，只能 想到一個理由：整理食譜。世界上第一台個人電腦，漢威公司（Honeywell）1969年上市的時髦廚房家電，就是為了做這件事而賣的──它甚至和流理台空間整合在一起。（資料來源：Free: The Future of a Radical Price）
  
  
• Technology Review: An Operating System for the Cloud: "In the mid-1970s, when the news of the first inexpensive microprocessor-based computers reached Gates at Harvard, he instantly understood the implications. Until then, computers had been instruments of organizations and agents of bureaucratization. The PC brought about a revolution, offering the little guy a chance to harness computing power for his personal ends."