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The first generation computers used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were enormous.
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CSIRAC was used to play music on computers. This is the first time a computer was used as a musical instrument.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce independently miniturized the transistor and created the IC chip as a solid-state piece of silicon (or germanium). It brought in the new age of solid-state electronics.
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Transistors replaced vacuum tubes and ushered in the second generation of computers. Faster than the first generation.
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3rd generation used the first integrated circuits.transistors were miniaturized and placed on semiconductors. The speed was drastically improved from the 2nd generation.
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First true operating system was released by IBM.
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Control Data introduces the first supercomputer, the CDC 6600.
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1st DRAM cell was developed by Dr. Robert Dennard of IBM. Several years later Intel Corp developed a 1KB DRAM.
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Texas Instruments releases the first easily portable electronic calculator.
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The 4th generation worked at clock speed. They had a CPU that was the brains of the computer.
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The first single CPU was made. It worked as the brains of the computer. Was the most important part of the computer.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a partnership called Microsoft.
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Steve wozniak and Steve Jobs foundded Apple Computer Inc.
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The fifth generation was mae to work and think like humans.
