jan 1, 1960 - the transistors
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- The transistors had almost completely supplanted vacuum tubes as the main active components of computers. By the 1970’s transistors had almost completely supplanted vacuum tubes as the main active components of computers.
- This was a huge step towards making computers more available to the general public.
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Zhang, Rui (Ella) - History of Computer Science
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