I heard a great quip about PCs -- their transformative power wasn't in accelerating operations that were already being run on mainframes, but allowing calculati

I heard a great quip about PCs -- their transformative power wasn't in accelerating operations that were already being run on mainframes, but allowing calculations to be automated that had never been before. This feels a lot like that. It's easy to forget the pent up demand "if the price were X lower."