3rd generation computers used integrated circuits and semiconductors which made them much smaller in size than previous 2nd and 1st generation computers. They utilized integrated circuits which contained multiple transistors and other circuit elements on a single semiconductor chip. Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer considered the inventor of the programmable, fully automatic digital computing machine.

2. were generally much smaller in
size than the 2nd and 1st
generation computers. This is
because these newer computers
made us of integrated circuits
and semiconductors.

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8. (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005)