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Its general purpose was a machine that could be programmed by the user, capable of executing the desired instructions and commands. -
First generation computers used vacuum tubes. A vacuum tube is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum betwee electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been aplied.
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Germans started to build the ENIAC. -
The first computer in the world was finished. -
The second generation of computers consists of two types of devices, transistors, and magnetic core. The transistors helped to develop a better computer than the first generation computers consisting of vacuum tubes. They were smaller and cheaper to create.
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The computers of the third generation used integrated circuits (IC) instead of transistors. They were more reliable, even smaller in size and the consumed less electricity. They were invented by Jack Kilby.
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These computers used microprocessors instead of IC. These computers were very compact and thereby required a very small amount of electricity. This generation of computers had the first ''supercomputers''.
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Its objective was the development of a new class of computers that would use artificial intelligence techniques and technologies