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They were better than a large room of hundreds of human computers, each with a mechanical desk calculator trying to solve the same problems. Seriously! In the 1930s and 1940s, aircraft manufactures designing new airplanes and insurance companies computing actuarial tables used to set policy rates did exactly this. Their problems did not fit well on then available unit record electromechanical punch card machines and were too big for one man to solve. Such companies grabbed up the first generation electronic digital computers of the 1950s as fast as they came out.
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Why are the fourth generation computers called digital computers?
Because the first, second, and third generation computers were also digital computers.
History of computer Before 1st generation of computers?
Electro-Mechanical Computers were used before first generation of computers.
Was a Microcomputer part of the first generation?
no, first generation computers used vacuum tubes.
What happened to the speed of computers as they moved from first generation to fifth generation?
The speed of computers increased from one generation to the next generation, and to the next generation, and so on.
What are the first generation computer?
First Generation computers were computers made out of Vaccum Tubes. They were soon rejected due to the extreme heat and electricity absorption.
First generation computers are called ICL2900HP9845 A VAX11780.What are second generation computers called?
Second Generation computers. The VAX mentioned above is just a single model of first generation electronic computers.
What are first generation computers?
By most definitions, first generation computers were the ones built with vacuum tubes.
What generation was the minicomputer first used?
The first minicomputers were second generation computers, but the most well known minicomputers were third generation computers.
Why are the fourth generation computers called digital computers?
Because the first, second, and third generation computers were also digital computers.
What are features for second generation computer?
Second generation computers are often called transistorized computers. The transistorized computers are more advanced computers than the first generation of computers.
History of computer Before 1st generation of computers?
Electro-Mechanical Computers were used before first generation of computers.
What computers will used vacuum tubes?
First generation computers.
Computer built before the first generation of computers were?
No computers.
What generation was vacuum tubes used?
first generation computers
What generation computers used vacuum tubes?
FIRST GENERATION
Was a Microcomputer part of the first generation?
no, first generation computers used vacuum tubes.
How big were the computers in the first generation of computers?
Size of a stranded classroom.
