3rd Generation (1964-1967)-Integrated Circuits

3^rd Generation (1964-1967)-Integrated Circuits

            

               The development of the integrated circuits was the hallmark of the third generation computers of computers. Transistor were miniaturized and place on silicon chips, called semiconductors which drastically increased the spend and efficiency of computers.

                Instead of punched card and printouts, user interacted with third generation computer through keyboard and monitors and interfaced with an operating system, which allowed the device to run many different applications at one time with a central program that monitored the memory computers for the first time became accessible to a mass audience because they were smaller and cheaper than their predecessors