Third Generation of Computers

Characteristics:

• They used Integrated circuits developed by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce as their main component, which are popularly called chips.

• They used new input and output devices such as scanners, magnetic ink character readers, etc.

• They used an operating system that allowed machines to run many programs simultaneously.

• They were general purpose computers and had both scientific and commercial use.

• These computers used a keyboard to input data and a monitor to display output.

• The computers had enlarged memory capacity.