On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote
of asymmetric TTL drive capability:
  That's also why strobes are almost always negative
logic (active low). 
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:22 AM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
  Interesting, but I'm not sure what a strobe
(signal) is. 
A signal that causes an action by being briefly in an active state, and the
rest of the time in an inactive state.
For example, the chip select signal to a memory or I/O chip, or the
read and write strobes.