The development of the integrated circuit was the hallmark of the third generation of computers. Transistors were miniaturized and placed on silicon chips, called semiconductors, which drastically incremented the celerity and efficiency of computers.
In lieu of punched cards and printouts, users interacted with third generation computers through keyboards and monitors and interfaced with an operating system, which sanctioned the contrivance to run many different applications at one time with a central program that monitored the recollection. Computers for the first time became accessible to a mass audience because they were more diminutive and more frugal than their predecessors.
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