Generation and future computers

timeline of computer

  • 1 generation of computer

    1 generation of computer
    it was invented in 1942.
    Charles Babbage, an English mechanical made it.
  • 2 generation computer

    2 generation computer
    The computers made in the second generation were completely based upon transistors, not on vacuum tubes. Until the late 1950s, the use of transistor did not see widespread in computers; however, it was invented at Bell Labs by Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), John Bardeen (1908-1991), and William B.
  • 3 generation of computers

    3 generation of computers
    The period of third generation was from 1965-1971. The computers of third generation used Integrated Circuits (ICs) in place of transistors. A single IC has many transistors, resistors, and capacitors along with the associated circuitry. The IC was invented by Jack Kilby.
  • 4 generation of computer

    4 generation of computer
    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. Fourth generation computers became more powerful, compact, reliable, and affordable.
  • 5 generation computer

    5 generation computer
    The Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) was a 10-year initiative begun in 1982 by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming.