COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
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Vacuum tubes
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Transistors
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Diodes
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
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 replaced transistors in the second generation | KnowledgeBoat.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this generation, transistors were used that were cheaper, consumed less power, more compact in size, more reliable and faster than the first generation machines made of vacuum tubes. In this generation, magnetic cores were used as the primary memory and magnetic tape and magnetic disks as secondary storage devices.