GENERATION COMPUTER COMPONENT SOFTWARE AUXILIARY CAPACITY

PARTS UNIT
1100 BCE  Abacus Parallel rods N/A N/A N/A
strung with Beads
Year 1614  Analog Wood N/A N/A N/A
calculators
Year 1623  Digital Interlocking N/A N/A N/A
calculators Gears
Year 1804–05  Jacquard loom Various-colored Punched hold 80
threads and N/A Cards columns of
Rods data
25,000 parts Storage
shared equally where data
between the could be
Year 1832  Different Engine calculating N/A held N/A
section and the temporarily
printer for later
processing
conditional
branching,
looping
(iteration),
microprogra
mming, hold 80
Year 1833  Analytic Engine Store and Mill Punched
parallel columns of
Cards
processing, data
iteration,
latching,
polling, and
pulse-
shaping
 ENIAC
(Electronic
Numerical
Integrator and
Computer)
 UNIVAC
(Universal
Automatic
Computer)
1st Generation  EDSEC Vacuum tubes Low-level Magnetic around 10 kB
(1940-1956) (Electronic Delay and diode valves machine drums
Storage language
Automatic
Calculator)
 EDVAC
(Electronic
Discrete Variable
Automatic
Computer)
 (Electronic delay
storage
automatic
calculator)
  IBM 1620
 CDC 1604, IBM
7094 About 1.1Mb
Higher-level (Megabyte)
 UNIVAC 1108
languages during 2nd
2ND Generation  IBM 620 Transistors Magnetic
like COBOL, Generation
(1956-1964)  CDC 3600 ALGOL, Tape but now
 IBM 4044 SNOBOL, modern tapes
 Honeywell 400 and can hold up to
 IBM 1401 FORTRAN 15 Tb
Mainframe (Terabyte)
 PDP-1
minicomputer
 ICL 2903 New
 ICL 1900 versions of
 TDC-B16 high-level
3rd Generation languages Hard Disk 5Mb
 IBM 360 Integrated
(1964-1971) like BASIC, Drive and (Megabyte) to
 370 Honeywell Circuits Floppy Disk 44Mb.
6000 COBOL,
 UNIVAC 1108 FORTRAN,
PASCAL,
 PDP-8
and ALGOL
 PDP-11
Higher
Capacity HDD can save
 Microcomputers Use of Hard Disk 250Gb
 Minicomputers languages Drive (Gigabyte) up
 Mainframe like C, C + (HDD), to 20Tb
computers. +, .Net, Java Solid State (Terabyte).
 Supercomputer , PHP, Drive
4th Generation Microprocessors Python, SSD can store
(1971-2010) and VLSI (SSD),
Ex: Visual Basic Secure 120Gb up to
technology Operating 30.72Tb.
Desktops, Digital Card
Laptops, System (OS) (SD Card)
Workstations, such like and Ram SD card can
Tablets, and Windows, Which store 2Gb to
Smartphones IOS, Android serves as a 128Gb.
etc. temporary
storage
Although
HDD and
 Artificial Microprocessors Parallel SSD are
Intelligence based on VLSI processing still use
5th Generation  Internet of (Very Large Scale hardware there’s a NVMe can
(2010-At Present) Things Integration) and and AI newly hold 800Gb
 Robotics ULSI (Ultra Large (Artificial developed up to 30.72Tb
Scale Integration) Intelligence) storage
technology. software. called
NVMe
(Nonvolatile
Memory
Express)

Prepared By: Emmanuel D. Malonga