TABLE SHOWING GENERATION OF COMPUTER

 GENERATION OF COMPUTER

Consider the table below: 

Generations 

Of computers

Year of 

development

The 

Technology

Used

Characteristics

Software

Instruction

Storage

Capacity

First

1951-1958 

 

Vacuum tube

Very big and slow in operation

Machine language

Small internal storage

Second

1959-1964

Transistor

Less heat generation

High level &

Assembly

Core storage

Third

1965-1975

100-1000

Chips

Introduction of integrated circuit

Multiprogramming

Facilities

Internal

Fourth

1975-1982

1000 above

VLSIC

Introduction of Non-procedural language

Flexible internal & external storage

Fifth

1982 and above

106chips

AI and Expert

system

Introduction of object oriented programming language

Small but powerful network

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