Generations of Computers

Generations of Computers

Growth in the computer industry is determined by the development in technology.

Based on various stages of development, computers can be categroized into different generations.

The first digital computer

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator)  was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. ENIAC was the first digital computer because it was fully functional.