Graves Early Electronic Computer History
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| What was the 1st generation of computer electronics? | The vacuum tube
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| What did the vacuum tube do? | It controlled the flow of electricity, allowing for 1s and 0s to be input and processed
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| What were two of the first computers that used vacuum tubes? | Britain's Colossus and USA's ENIAC, created for WWII
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| What was the problem with vacuum tubes? | They broke or burned out easily
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| What was the 2nd generation of computer electronics? | The transistor
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| What did the transistor do? | It controlled the flow of electricity, but was made of silicon. It was far more reliable and less breakable than vacuum tubes
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| What was the 3rd generation of computer electronics? | The integrated circuit
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| What was special about the integrated circuit? | It combined the functions of many transistors onto a chip of silicon
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| What computers used first used the integrated circuit? | The guidance computers in the landing module and command module for the first NASA Moon mission
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| What did Colossus do? | The British designed and used it to break Nazi Germany's coded messages.
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| What did ENIAC do? | The US military designed and used it to create aiming tables for artillery.
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| What did the Harvard Mark I computer do? | It was used to help develop the atomic bomb.
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