INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
COMPUTER GENERATIONS AND CLASSIFICATION
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Question
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The first generation of computers used ____ as a major piece of technology
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very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits.
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integrated Circuits
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transistors
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vacuum tubes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Atanasoff–Berry computer, a prototype of which was first demonstrated in 1939, is now credited as the first vacuum-tube computer.
Detailed explanation-2: -By using vacuum tubes instead of mechanical relays, computers could move away from mechanical switching and speed up switching on and off the flow of electrons. Vacuum tubes were also used in radios, televisions, radar equipment, and telephone systems during the first half of the 1900s.
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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