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Solid Logic Technology (SLT) was IBM s method for packaging electronic circuitry introduced in 1964 with the IBM System/360 series and related machines. Because monolithic Integrated Circuit s were not considered to be mature enough at the time. IBM chose to design custom Hybrid Circuit s using discrete, Flip Chip -mounted, Glass -encapsulated Transistor s and Diode s, with Silk Screened Resistor s on a Ceramic substrate. The circuits were either encapsulated in plastic or covered with a metal lid. Several of these were then mounted on a small multi-layer Printed Circuit board to make an SLT module. Each SLT module had a socket on one edge that plugged into pins on the computer's backplane (the exact reverse of how most other company's modules were mounted). SLT replaced the earlier Standard Modular System . LATER DEVELOPMENTS The same basic packaging technology (both device and module) was also used for the devices that replaced SLT as IBM gradually transitioned from hybrid integrated circuits to monolithic integrated circuits:
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