Advancement Of The Computer

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media became very interested in them. They wrote about them in newspapers and magazines calling them �electronic brains� That will change the world. In 1953 IBM realized that a market existed for business computers. They introduced a total of 19 of these computers for businesses. The computers were very large, expensive, and needed a large staff of professional people just to run them. Punch cards were used to give the first generation computer data and instructions.
The second generation of computers existed from 1959-1963. The second generation of computers did not run on vacuum tubes but instead they used transistors. Unlike vacuum tubes, transistors were small, required little power, and stayed cool. Over all transistors made the second generation much more reliable, faster, and smaller. They were easier to program. They used a high-level language that made it possible to use same programs on computers produced by different companies. These computers also had the capability to ...

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