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Period: to
1st Generation
CHARACTERISTICS:
-They were very expensive
-They were very large
-Used lots of electrictys
ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS:
-Vacuum tubes: Glass bulbs with wire, they carried data via electronic signals
-There were very large and ineffucient, NO operating system. -
ENIAC
1st gen. computer-> used the ENIAC, and ended at 1946 -
Period: to
2nd Generation
CHARACTERISTICS:
-Smaller, Faster and cheaper->than the previous generation.
ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS:
Transistors: Less heat produced, maintenance needed.
Magnetic core: Made the memory, faster and reliable. -
Period: to
3rd Generation
CHARACTERISTICS:
-Less electricity needed, smaller, cheaper, faster.
-Less heat.
-More reliable.
-Less maintenance needed.
ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS: -Integrated circuits-> 1000 times as faster as transistors, as smaller as a transistors -
Period: to
4th Generation
CHARACTERISTICS:
-Smaller, more portable cheaper, less electricity needed.
ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS:
-Microprocessors:-> Silicon chips with thousands of circuits.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES ADDED:
-Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, internet, hard drive, RAM, the mouse. -
Period: to
5th Generation
CHARACTERISTICS:
-These are the fastest and most advanced kind of computer:->Some of them use quantum techonlogy to process information faster.
-They come with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS:
They use microprocessot just as 4th generation computers.