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• The first computers used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often enormous, taking up entire rooms
• They were very expensive to operate and in addition to using a great deal of electricity, generated a lot of heat, which was often the cause of malfunctions
• First generation computers relied on machine language the lowest-level programming language understood by computers.
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