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Computers - General Knowledge Questions
Which was the first computer to use transistors instead of vacuum tubes?
A)
Burroughs E-101
B)
Intel-650
C)
IBM-1401
D)
Datamatic-1000

Correct Answer :   IBM-1401

IBM- 1401 was the first computer to use transistor instead of vacuum tubes.
 
A transistor computer, now often called a second generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first generation of electronic computers used vacuum tubes, which generated large amounts of heat, were bulky, and were unreliable. A second generation of computers, through the late 1950s and 1960s featured circuit boards filled with individual transistors and magnetic core memory. These machines remained the mainstream design into the late 1960s, when integrated circuits started appearing and led to the third-generation machines.
 
Because the transistor was so much smaller and consumed significantly less power, a computer system built with transistors was also much smaller, faster, and more efficient than a computer system built with vacuum tubes.
 
A transistor computer, now often called a second generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first generation of electronic computers used vacuum tubes, which generated large amounts of heat, were bulky, and were unreliable.

Published On : June 18, 2021
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