During which generation of computers were vacuum tubes primarily utilized?

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26 Sept 2017
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Vacuum tubes were the main electronic components used in first-generation computers, which operated from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. Subsequent generations replaced vacuum tubes with transistors and integrated circuits.

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