Group 3 Flashcards
It was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945.
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
It was one of the earliest electronic computers.
It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania.
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)
It was the the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business applications produced in the US.
Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC I)
Refers to the period in the 1950s and 1960s when computers transitioned from using vacuum tubes to transistors.
2nd Generation of Computers
Refers to the period who used vacuum tubes as the basic components for memory and circuitry for the CPU
1st Generation of Computers
Used for data input and output, enabling efficient storage and processing of information.
Punch cards and Magnetic tapes
Created by Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Shockley in 1947.
It is a miniature semiconductor that regulates or controls current or voltage flow in addition to amplifying and generating these electric signals and acting as a switch or gate for them.
Transistors
It is one of the first stages of random access random memory.
Used for data storage, improving the speed and reliability of information processing.
Magnetic core memory
A mainframe computer and an early example of second-generation computing.
Used transistors for logical circuits and magnetic core memory for storage.
IBM 7090 launched in 1959
Introduced and invented by Sperry Rand in 1962.
It was a second-generation computer that utilised transistors and magnetic core memory.
It was used also for scientific and engineering applications.
UNIVAC 1107
It was a 48-bit computer invented by Seymour Cray, and his team CDC (Control Data Corporation) and was released in 1960.
Computer known as one of the first commercially successful transistorized computers.
CDC 1604
This period started using integrated circuits
3rd Generation of computers
A semiconductor material that contains thousands of transistors miniatures in it.
Integrated circuit
Introduced in 1972, and largely uses microprocessors.
These computers used VLSI technologies, Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Circuits.
4th Generation of Computers
It was the first commercially available computer. It was a vector supercomputer that featured 64-bit architecture.
STAR 1000
This generation is based on parallel processing hardware and AI software.
5th Generation of Computers
It is the state in which a quantum particle or system can represent not just one possibility, but a combination of multiple possibilities
Superposition
It is the process in which multiple quantum particles become correlated more strongly than regular probability allows.
Entanglement
It is the process in which quantum particles and systems can decay, collapse, or change, converting into single states measurable by classical physics.
Decoherence
It is the phenomenon in which entanglement quantum states can interact and produce more and less likely probabilities.
Interference
