The development of the Integrated Circuit (IC's) was the hallmark of the third generation computers. Transistors were much smaller and was placed on silicon chips, called semi-conductors, which increased the speed and efficiency of computers.
Instead of punch cards and printouts, keyboards and monitors were used with an operating system which allowed the device to run many different applications at one time.
This generation introduced data structures and control structures.
These computers are portable or machine independent where a program written from one computer can also be used by another computer, however the source code must be recompiled by a language compiler by the other computer.
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