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1st generation
A vacuum tube consists of a glass bulb and wire. The wire is used to carry data in the form of eletronic signals. -
2nd generation
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2nd generation
the second-generation computers used transistors instead of vacuum tubes. -
3rd generation
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3rd generation
An integrated circuit (IC) is a small as a transistor but it can work as fast as thousands of them. -
4th generation
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4th generation
The fouth-generation computers use microprocessors. A microprocessor consists of a small silicon chip on which thousands of circuits are placed. -
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5th generation
scientits are now trying to develop fifth-generation computers in a way that they can think on their own. this is called Artificial intelligence(AI). robots work on this technology.