Ever since the computer has been miniaturised and in our homes it has become vital to the house and how we run it. When you consider that the first generation computers that came out in the 1940s were the size of a room, and could only produce answers on a punch card. It could only receive instructions by a punch card being shoved into it as well. These behemoths of calculation were also prone to overheating and needed fans to cool them much like the giant servers we rely on today to keep the cloud going.
Slowly computers began to shrink down to a more manageable size. Second generation computers were able to communicate via a printed statement. This would spool out of the computer when requested, or sometimes when it was not. The quantum leap for the computer was the development of the integrated circuit. Once this was invented, the need for transistors was no more, This meant that the size of the computer was reduced and much smaller and powerful units could be made.
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