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Start of the First Generation Computers
It was first built during the world War II. It can only solve one problem at a time. It was created for a specific task and was never sold to the general market. It was very hard to program. -
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Eniac
It’s full name Universal Automatic Computer. It was released in 1951 and 1952. It contained a thousand of vacuum tubes. It was only owned by few companies or government agencies. -
Start of the Second Generation Computers
Assembly language and high-level programming language was used in this computer. It could store about 5MB. It had 1KB and 16KB of core memory. The IBM 1401 captured 1 third of the world market. -
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IBM 1620
In October 21, 1959 it was released. It is a inexpensive scientific computer. It barely survived to nowadays, It’s hard to find. -
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IBM-360
It is produced by IBM. It was introduce in 1964. This computer is a mainframe computer system family. -
Start of the Third Generation Computers
It was the period of the development of integrated circuits. Transistors were placed onto silicon chips. They had monitors and keyboards instead of punch cards. -
Start of Fourth Generation Computer
It was compact It was a reliable computer. It raised the Personal Computer Revolution. Time sharing, Real time, Networks, Distributed Operating System were used in this generation. -
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PDP 11
It is the most successful PDP series. It was sold by the Digital Equipment Corporation. It is a series of 16-bit minicomputers. p.s I could not find the real released date so I put in random date but the date is correct (I guess)
