Short note on second generation computers
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=>The period of second generation was from 1956 to 1963. The second generation computers used transistors as the basic components. The first transistor was developed at bell laboratories on 1947 by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain. The size of transistor is small compared to the size of vacuum tubes. Transistors are made from silicon. Transistors that are made from silicon are less sensitive to temperature, so they cannot easily burn up.
"The period of second generation was from 1956 to 1963. The second generation computers used transistors as the basic components, which were small as compared to the size of vacuum tubes.
These computers generated less heat as compared to the first generation computers. Maintenance cost of these computers were low because hardware failures were rare here.
The instructions for computer were written in assembly language. Air conditioning was compulsory.
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