Computers are such an integral part of our everyday life
now most people take them and what they have added to life totally for granted.The
computer as we know it today had its beginning with a 19th century English
mathematics professor name Charles Babbage.
First generation
The journey of the five generations of computers
started in 1940 with vacuum tube for motherboard, and a magnetic drum for
memory.
It was often huge, took entire room. These computers were quiet
expensive as well as needed maximum amount of electricity.
The first computer depend on machine language, which was the lowest
level programming to perform operations, also they could only solve one problem
or a question at a time.
Inputs were established on punched cards and paper tape, whereas the
outputs were displayed on printouts.
Second generation
Transistors were contacted and placed on silicon
chips, called semiconductors, which extremely increased the speed and
efficiency of computers.
In the place of punched cards and printouts, keyboards
and monitors are used in an operation system, which make the device easier to
run many different applications at a moment.
This computer became more denuded because, it was
smaller and cheaper than their predecessors.
Third generation
In this generation the computer could fit the palm of
the hand.
The Intel chips were located all the components of the
computer from the central processing unit and memory to input/ output controls
on a system chip.
The use of
parallel processing and superconductors, helps to make artificial intelligence
a reality.
The goal of third
generation computer is to develop devices that respond to natural language
input and which could be capable of learning and self-organization.
