Manufacture of silicon chips was completed in late 1950s and in 1963, IBM company marketed computers containing IC as memory devices. IBM 360 is an example of this type. From 1964 computers began to be connected with Visual Display Unit (VDU), high speed printers and magnetic tapes as storage media or backing media. All computers after 1965 contain IC in them. Third generation computers are still small in size and they are much faster as they used small chips containing thousands of parts integrated in them. For mass storage, floppy disk, hard disk, tape or card were used in this generation of computers. Multiprocessing and multiprogramming are the two main advantages of this generation of computers. Actual market of computers started from the third generation of computers.
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