Computer Generation There are five Generations of Computer First Generation_______1946-1959 Second Generation_____1959-1965 Third Generation______1965-1971 Fourth Generation_____1971-Today Fifth Generation______Today to future First Generation_____Vacuum Tube Vaccuum Tube J.P.Eckert and J.W.Mauchy invent the first successful electronic computer called ENIAC,ENIAC stands for Electronic Numeric Integrated and Calculator. The first computers used Vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory. They were very expensive to operate and in addition to using a great deal of electricity,generated a lot of heat. First generation computer relied on machine language,the lowest programming language understood by computers to perform calculations,and they could only solve one problem at a time. Second Generation________Transistor Transistor John Bardeen(1908-1991) , William B. Shockley(1910-1989) and Walter H invented the second generation of computer technology. In this ge...