FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -History of Computers: 2nd Generation. By 1948, the invention of the transistor drastically changed the computer’s development. The transistor replaced the cumbersome vacuum tube in televisions, radios and computers. As a result, the size of electronic machinery has been shrinking ever since.

Detailed explanation-2: -A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first generation of electronic computers used vacuum tubes, which generated large amounts of heat, were bulky and unreliable.

Detailed explanation-3: -2. 2nd generation computers had transistors instead of vacuum tubes. 3. In 3th generation computers, ICs replaced transistors.

Detailed explanation-4: -The computers made in the second generation were completely based upon transistors, not on vacuum tubes. Until the late 1950s, the use of transistor did not see widespread in computers; however, it was invented at Bell Labs by Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), John Bardeen (1908-1991), and William B.

Detailed explanation-5: -2nd Generation. Transistors replace vacuum tubes and ushered in the second generation of computers. The transistor was invented in 1947 but did not see widespread use in computers until the late 1950’s.