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FIRST GENERATION
UNIVAC was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
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SECOND GENERATION
FORTRAN is a compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. -
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THIRD GENERATION
The third generation of computer made high-level programming languages, such as COBOL, FORTRAN, and BASIC, more prevalent. These computers also allowed multiple users to interact with a single computer at the same time. -
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FOURTH GENERATION
Computers of fourth generation used Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits. VLSI circuits having about 5000 transistors and other circuit elements with their associated circuits on a single chip made it possible to have microcomputers of fourth generation.