Third-generation computers are developments that pass through very fast

stages in the development of existing computers. Third generation

computers appeared since the 1964-1970s.
In its use, transistors make computer performance heat faster. Thus, the
manufacture of second generation computers began to be abandoned.
Then one of the scientists named Jack Billy, tried to do research again.

In this third generation the history of Integrated Circuit (IC) computer

technology is one of the main features. Because it began to be familiar and
widely used on computer devices until the current generation. IC was first
made by a man named, Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor in
1959 which only contained six transistors. The characteristics of the third
generation are:
• The use of electricity is more efficient.
• Software upgrades.
• Prices are getting cheaper.
• Larger memory capacity, and can store hundreds of thousands of
characters (previously only tens of thousands).
• Because you have used ICs, computer performance has become more
precise and faster.

The fourth generation computer is a regeneration of the 3rd generation,

perda that the IC on the 4th generation computer is more complex and
integrated In the fourth generation, the computer has begun to use IC
chips, then just started to be developed again. By a Very Large Scale
Integration Company. To try to work on development since the 1980s. The
result, one chip can hold thousands of components.
History of computers in the fourth generation has a monitor screen, still
using one color (green). with the Microsoft Basic programming language
(Beginner's Allpurpose Symbolic Instruction Code). These are some of the
characteristics of the fourth generation.
• Using LSI (Large Scale Integration).
• Developing a micro computer that already uses semiconductors and chip-
shaped micro processors for computer memory.
• Fourth generation computers include: AT, IBM PS / 2, IBM PC / 386, IBM
370, Apple II, IBM PC / XT, IBM PC / IBM PC / 486.) IBM Pentium II.