... was spanned on just five years duration that is from 1965 to 1970. In this generation the Integrated Circuits IC's were used. An IC contains many electronic circuits in a single chip. This made five millions executions of instructions per second possible and computer could store at that time about 8 million characters. There was a big flexibility with input/Output devices. The ... disk oriented systems were made. The size of computer became very small with better performance. High level programming languages were extensively used. In 1969 the first microprocessor chip INTEL-4004 was dev...

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... and computers has helped to enable the growth of Digital Business. As technological advancements continued to increase throughout the years, this meant that more transistors could be placed on a single chip (Johnson [2000]), thus computers grew much smaller, common and affordable. This in turn, meant that more and more businesses could purchase computers; and thus allowing them to enter the new ... and computers has helped to enable the growth of Digital Business. As technological advancements continued to increase throughout the years, this meant that more transistors could be placed o...

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... made up using vacuum tubes but now they were using transistors. This made it smaller, less expensive more reliable and more efficient. The Semiconductor Corporation invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. The bulky computer days were now history. This made the machines faster, but they were still hard to program. It was not ... ...

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... the keyboard, and seeing that letter represented on the monitor, not on paper as with a typewriter. Of course, by today's standards, the TRS-80 can't hold a light to the computer chip in my wristwatch. In Junior High, I quickly lost interest in the TRS-80 in favor of the new, more powerful, Apple IIe computer. The Apple was the first computer on ... ...

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