Computer Generations

• 0 = mechanical computers

• 1 = electronic tubes - ENIAC, Colossus

• 2 = transistors (1950’s) - IBM 1400

• 3 = integrated circuits (1960’s) - IBM 360

• 4 = VLSI - personal computers

• 5 = parallel computing - supercomputers

• 6 = network computing?

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