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It was first built during the world War II. It can only solve one problem at a time. It was created for a specific task and was never sold to the general market. It was very hard to program.
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Time period for first generation computers.
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It’s full name Universal Automatic Computer. It was released in 1951 and 1952. It contained a thousand of vacuum tubes. It was only owned by few companies or government agencies.
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Assembly language and high-level programming language was used in this computer. It could store about 5MB. It had 1KB and 16KB of core memory. The IBM 1401 captured 1 third of the world market.
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Time period for second generation computers.
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In October 21, 1959 it was released. It is a inexpensive scientific computer. It barely survived to nowadays, It’s hard to find.
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Time period for third generation computers.
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It is produced by IBM. It was introduce in 1964. This computer is a mainframe computer system family.
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It was the period of the development of integrated circuits. Transistors were placed onto silicon chips. They had monitors and keyboards instead of punch cards.
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It was compact It was a reliable computer. It raised the Personal Computer Revolution. Time sharing, Real time, Networks, Distributed Operating System were used in this generation.
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It is the most successful PDP series. It was sold by the Digital Equipment Corporation. It is a series of 16-bit minicomputers. p.s I could not find the real released date so I put in random date but the date is correct (I guess)
