ELECTRONIC PERIOD

 The Electronic Period The last period in ICT history is the electronic period. It started in the 1940s and continues to the present. The highlight of this period is focused on the advent electronic devices. The four main events found in of solid state devices or this period are the late vacuum tubes period, the transistors period, the integrated circuits period, and the computer processors period. Fig. 1.6. The ENIAC, circa 1946 Source: http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/ENIAC5.GIF (accessed on 25 November 2015) The latter period of vacuum tube machines is the start of the electronic period. The dawn of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first electronic and general purpose computer, marked a revolutionary period in computing. ENIAC was a big machine that occupied an area of 167 square meters. Aside from its big size, its processing speed was slower than those of machines used today. was invented in nd was improved a year later. This cipher the code a...