If you carefully clean the top of an IC and hold it up to a light so that 
the rays just glance off the surface, it is usually possible, with a 
magnifying glass, to see where the number etc was printed, clearly enough to 
read it. I have done this even when there was apparently no paint left on the 
IC.

    Regards,

    Chris Chapman
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