QUESTIONS & VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
PASSED 100%
1. 1st Generation
of Computers Vacuum Tubes 1940's - 1950's Programming Language: Low-level
machine lan- guage
Purpose: Who used them?
2. 2nd No operating systems. Human operators to set switches.
Generation of
Computers Transistors 1959 and 1965
Programming Language:
Assembly language
Purpose: Who used them: Human-handled punched card. Binary 0's
and 1's.
3. 3rd Generation of Integrated circuits (1960s)
Computers Programming Language:Cobol- Fortran
Purpose: Who used them: Silicon chips (semi-conductors) A complete
operating system was introduced.
4. 4th Generation of Extreme miniaturization
Computers Includes
5. Input Devices
in- clude
6. Output
Devices
Include:
7. Storage
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QUESTIONS & VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
PASSED 100%
1980s) icrophone
Programming Language: Scanner
anguages and application
software Monitors, printers, speakers
urpose: Who used them:
Microprocessor MS-DOS
Microsoft Windows.
Portable and economical.
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