GENERATION OF COMPUTERS

By Lara Maglasang

  • 1st Generation

    1st Generation
    -It is generally known as electromechanical computers or using vacuum tubes.

  • 2nd Generation

    2nd Generation
    -Also known as transistor computers. The second generation of computers consist two types of devices, transistors and magnetic core.

  • 3rd Generation

    3rd Generation
    -Period of third generation was from 1956-1971. It also used integrated circuits (ICs) in place of transistors.

  • 4th Generation

    4th Generation
    • Between 1971-1980. These computers used the VLSI TECHNOLOGY or The very large scale integrated(VLSI) CIRCUITS TECHNOLOGY.

  • 5th Generation

    5th Generation
    • It uses A.I (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) technology that includes development of expert systems, Game playing, robotics, natural language understanding, and neural networks.