Sunday, 13 April 2014

THE THIRD GENERATION, 1965-1970: THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

An IC- A complete electronic circuit on a small chip of silicon (non-metallic substance)
A chip is much  smaller in size- ½ inch square, can contain thousands of electronic components
An IC was able to replace an entire circuit board of transistor with one chip of silicon much smaller than a transistor.

1965- ICs began to replace transistors.
Software became more sophisticated, using terminals to access the computer

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