off-topic: Telling chips apart?

[Alex Snow]

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It's all ic's now.
If you look at older electronics I have an amp from thbe early 60's 
here that's solidstate but you can still see what's what on it. now 
everything's ic's. you definitely will see some standalone resisters 
and transisters and the like but not as much in computer equipment.
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Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:59:33PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> That's true. Although what I'm refering to more are custom circuit 
> boards...And I've also been interested in what exactly is on this sblive 
> card I have over here.
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
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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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