Computer Generations Table!

Generation	Examples of Computer (Name)	Electronic Components	Years	Used for?	Size	Interesting fact about each
1	The Colossus	Vacuum Tubes	1940-1956	Vacuum tubes are used for radios, television, radar equipment, and telephones.	Took up a Room	Today some vacuum tubes are used for speakers, which audiophiles say that the audio quality is better than normal transistors.
2	The Manchester Transistor Computer	Transistors	1956-1963	Replaced vacuum tubes, allowing computers to be faster, smaller, power efficient and cheaper.	Took up a room but still less than a vacuum tube computer.	Transistors still used punched cards for input and printouts for outputs,
3	IBM 1311	Chips (Integrated Circuits)	1964-1971	Just like the transistors, the integrated circuits replaced them being much faster and efficient. Now they can store many data and can make more calculations.	Took up half a room.	Most integrated circuits have gold in them. Now as they are obsolete, some people extract gold out of the chip and sell them for money.
4	Sunway TaihuLight	Microprocessors (Computers on a chip)	1971-Present	Replacing the old integrated circuits, most computers only have one microprocessor which made them a lot more compact, faster, cheaper and efficient.	General computers took a small portion of a room. A supercomputer would take a whole room.	Microprocessors were made by many companies before. Now there are only two companies that take up most of the microprocessor market, Intel and AMD.
5.	Google Data Servers	Networking Parallel Computing Fibre Optics	Present - Future	Unlike a physical hardware state, computers are accessing the cloud for information, apps, communication, and many more.	Servers would take up a room, but computers accessing the cloud would take no space at all.	The cloud is mainly servers from around the world. Most servers still use microprocessors. But since this is just the beginning new technology are starting to be developed by engineers/scientists all around the globe.