off-topic: Telling chips apart?

[Alex Snow]

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well the cpu is obvious it's large and square and has a heatsink 
sitting on it. it's also in a zif socket.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 
10:32:37AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> Hi all. Has anyone figured out a good way to tell chips apart on a 
> circuit board? Because I've tried many times, however they are all 
> shaped the same so I can't tell the difference between say, a CPU and an 
> EEPROM. Just wondering if anyone has encountered a similar or same 
> problem. And if so what was/were the sollutions? Thanks! 
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