COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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During this computer generation, computers were mostly built with vacuum tubes and as a result, computers were enormous and usually takes up an entire space of a room. what computer generation is this?
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Second Generation
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Fifth Generation
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Third Generation
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First Generation
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The period of first generation was from 1946-1959. The computers of first generation used vacuum tubes as the basic components for memory and circuitry for CPU (Central Processing Unit).
Detailed explanation-2: -A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
Detailed explanation-3: -vacuum tubes are known as first-generation computers. (With 1, 500 mechanical relays, ENIAC was still transitional to later, fully electronic computers.)
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