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Use of Magnetic Ferrite Core memory as a Random Accessed
Non-Volatile Memory.
Magnetic tapes were used as secondary memory.
Punched card continued.
Drawback of Second Generation
Prone to hardware failure.
Emission of heat was still a problem.
Though assembly language made work easy but was not much
user friendly.
Well Known Second Generation Computers
IBM 7030
Digital Data Corporation’s PDP 1/5/8
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Use of Magnetic Ferrite Core memory as a Random Accessed
Non-Volatile Memory.
Magnetic tapes were used as secondary memory.
Punched card continued.
Drawback of Second Generation
Prone to hardware failure.
Emission of heat was still a problem.
Though assembly language made work easy but was not much
user friendly.
Well Known Second Generation Computers
IBM 7030
Digital Data Corporation’s PDP 1/5/8
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