Historical development of computer
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The computer as we know it today had its beginning with a 19th century English mathematics professor name Charles Babbage.
computers can be classified into three generations:
1 First generation: 1937 – 1946 - In 1937 the first electronic digital computer was built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). Computers of this generation could only perform single task, and they had no operating system
2 Second generation: 1947 – 1962 - This generation of computers used transistors instead of vacuum tubes which were more reliable. In 1951 the first computer for commercial use was introduced to the public . Storage media such as tape and disk were in use
3 Third generation: 1963 - present - With this invention computers became smaller, more powerful more reliable and they are able to run many different programs at the same time.