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Computers
Pre-Computer Age
Charles Babbage(pre
1930s
The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles
1st Generation
Vacuum Tubes (40-56)
Vacuum tubes for circuit and magnetic drums for memory and
were often enormous.
Very Expensive
Enormous
2nd Generation
Transistors (56-63)
rd
Generation
Integrated Circuits (6471)
Applications
4th Generation
Microprocessors (71
present)
Thousands of integrated circuits onto a single chip.
1981 IBM introduced its first computer for the home user, and in
1984 Apple introduced the Macintosh.
5th Generation
Artificial Intelligence (present-beyond)
Voice recognition
Quantum computation
Molecular Nanotechnology
Bibliography
"The Five Generations of Computers." - Webopedia. N.p., n.d.
Web. 24 Sept. 2015.
<http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/Fiv
eGenerations.asp>.
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