3RD GENERATION OF COMPUTERS

1964______1970

presentation by:SABA khan BBA 3RD AROLL NO 17

3RD GENERATION COMPUTERS

3RD GENERATION OF COMPUTERS Characterized by

the transition from transistors to the INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIPS and from punch card to ELECTRONIC COMPUTER SYSTEM.

GENERAL CHARACTERSITICS

Smaller in size then 1st and 2nd generations.

Increased storage capabilities. Multi-programming and volatile. Speedy than 1st and 2nd generations. Keyboards and monitors were used

for the first time. Time sharing.

MEMORY DEVICE Magnetic disks were used widely as storage devices.

YEAR WISE COMPUTERS 1964__1965: IBM360 by IBM Inc was

introduced. 1965: PDP-8 was introduced.It was

the 1st computer which successfully made use of IC chips__much cheaper and smaller.It only has 4096 words of memory.

1966: HP-2115 with this invention HEWLETT PACKARD entered in the computer business.

YEAR WISE COMPUTERS 1969:UNIX introduced multi-user

operating system which was able to perform multi tasks.

1970:GUI(pronounced as GOOEY) designed by XEROR corporation.POINT and CLICK, and IMAGE icons idea was introduced.

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